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It was not only Wordsworth who could see daffodils; we in Lincolnshire can see millions of them at the appropriate time of the year.

Once as important as Arundel or Lewes, Bramber is now merely a village, the market centre having migrated to nearby Steyning.

Much of its wealth and subsequent Victorian building was a result of prosperity based on rope, sacking and string making. The 20th century has added modern shopping centres and a leisure complex.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

Here we see a Maytime scene of the long, tongue-shaped village green, with the church of St George in the background, and the chestnut trees in full blossom.

One of Dublin's most famous buildings is the Custom House. It was designed by Gandon and built between 1781-1791.

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.

Denbigh saw action during the Wars of The Roses and changed hands on several occasions. In 1468 it finally fell to a Lancastrian force led by Jasper Tewdwr, Earl of Pembroke.

The building has never been an abbey, but took its name from the lands owned by the Benedictine Abbey of Bec in Normandy.

This photograph demonstrates the rugged beauty of the stones.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

During the siege of York it is thought that guns were placed on the roof here, but there is some controversy about this.

The lower part of this strange structure is Roman; it was the west corner of the Roman fort. The upper part is 14th-century.

West of Sunbury and on the former Middlesex bank of the Thames is Chertsey Lock, near Chertsey Bridge, an austere seven-arch stone bridge of the 1780s by James Paine.

Pearsall took advantage of the new handlooms developed by John Broom, a local entrepreneur.

Pershore's Fair began in the reign of Henry III to provide funds for the restoration of the presbytery. It was held in the churchyard until the mid 1800s.

This is the shopping centre of Kippax, much changed on the left, but untouched on the right.

Today there are many more large villas here, including those of Fosterville Crescent. Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Ashworth was formerly a detached part of Middleton. Its 100 acres of trees are recorded on an ancient woodland inventory and it is still an area of natural beauty.

We are looking down on Aberdare, a town set amid beautiful scenery at the head of the Cynon Valley. On the far right, the road continues over the top to Maerdy.

The arrival of the railway one mile away, sealed the fate of West Liss.

When the ice retreated after the last Ice Age, deposits of boulder clay were deposited along the east coast.

The foundations of the 10th-century church of St Bertelin are laid out adjoining St Mary's behind the middle bench.

Turning north into the upper Exe valley, we enter the Exmoor National Park at Dulverton, on the Exford Road in the tributary valley of the River Barle.