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Half a mile from Lyndhurst and yet located within the parish lies the scattered hamlet of Emery Down, surrounded by peaceful forest glades and countryside.

The tide here is fierce, roaring up and down at several knots. Under the right-hand section of the bridge, the swivelling mechanism can be seen.

The River Winniford (right), trickling down the valley from Chideock village, seeps into Lyme Bay through a bank of pebbles below the Anchor Inn (centre).

There are 99 steps from the Pontsarn Hotel down to the Blue Pool.

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.

The reconstruction narrowed the street, which once had a row of shops down the middle. To the left is the spire of St Mary's Church.

It prospered thanks to coal mining, and packhorses carried the coal down the street to the Fosse Way. Nowadays it is a prosperous commuting area, and modern semis punctuate the old stone cottages.

Like Dawley, Oakengates sits on old coal mines and iron works, which have all now closed down.

Fifteen years or so before this picture was taken, in the summer of 1940, an enemy aircraft was shot down over Kings Somborne and crashed in a field just outside the village.

A dark spine of conifers runs down the middle of the long garden, which is just a narrow strip of land between Plymouth Road and the cemetery.

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

High Salvington, formerly a hamlet on the downs, has now been engulfed by Worthing.

Devoran developed in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at

Situated between the Hall and the village, Kelham Bridge's one claim to fame is that it was rammed and split in two by a small iceberg that floated down the Trent during the winter of 1854–55.

A horse-drawn wagon comes down the lane, and to the left is the spire of St Peter's Church.

This view looks down on Reynard's Cave and the River Dove. The wooded slopes in the background are on the Staffordshire bank of the Dove, and rise to Air Cottage on the top of the hill opposite.

They weigh up to 40 tons each, and were brought from Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, about 20 miles away, from a surface quarry that can still be visited.

creation was compromised by poor building work, but all agreed that Nash conjured for this region of the West End a genteel and polished atmosphere that has considerably added to its prosperity down

Power was provided at these points, and the tubs were hauled up (or down) to change water levels.

Loose is situated just south-east of the Medway; it is an unusual village that spills down the hillside towards the valley bottom, and is surrounded by hop and fruit gardens.

area between the White Cross and the photographer is now occupied by Richmond Riverside, a splendid collection of 1980s Georgian-style office blocks by Quinlan Terry above a zig-zag of ramped terraces down

In this view we look down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left beyond the cart.