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Otterton has some of the best examples of cob and thatch cottages in Devon. Many of the homes we see in this photograph date from between the 15th and 18th centuries.

The monument stands in the centre of an area known as the Sanctuary by the west door of the abbey and on the site of the abbey gateway.

The coming of the Heads of the Valleys Road greatly changed the landscape of this area. Today this busy road is rarely as quiet as this.

Courtenay is the family name of the Earls of Devon, who were the major landowners in the area and responsible for much of the Victorian expansion of Newton Abbot.

An interesting mix of architectural styles characterises Braunston's High Street. Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone.

One of the fads of entertainment which has come in and out of vogue since Victorian times has been roller skating.

This stands close to the site of Assington Hall, which burnt down in 1957. Parts of the outbuildings survived, including the range to the left of the church.

A short stroll from the toll bridge brings you to the little church of St Mary's.

The 1920s were to bring about something of a mini-boom in the amount of traffic using Gloucester, for it was then that a number of companies, including National Benzole, opened oil terminals at the docks

The jam-packed stalls of Hitchin market reflect the higgledy-piggledy dwellings that it replaced.

The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond.

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from one of the same name in Venice.

Holidaymakers at this time could be forgiven for thinking that there was something of an army camp about the site!

The De Brus Cenotaph is the most significant surviving relic of the town's priory.

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

On the edge of the village stands the black and white half-timbered Rufford Old Hall, owned now by the National Trust, but seat of the Hesketh family for about 600 years.

The small civil airport at Lympne was developed from the wartime fighter base, prior to the enormous expansion of London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, for short cross-channel flights.

St Michael's parish church is north of the High Street, and a reminder of a pre- Rothschild era for the village, although the chancel was restored at his expense in 1877.

The tiny flint-walled church of St Mary was rebuilt c1135, and is one of the smallest in the county. It is only 60ft long, and consists of a nave and a lower chancel.

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

Ripon is one of England's smallest cathedral cities; in 1836 it became the centre of a new bishopric.

That was an age of great prosperity, thanks to the flourishing wool trade, and there is little sign of such wealth and population in the small hamlet of today.

The churchwarden awaits the arrival of the owners of the abbey (who at this date would have been the Stricklands), ready to escort them up to their private gallery in the church; the gallery

In the years immediately prior to the Great War, a number of British car manufacturers got round the problem of the poor state of most of the country’s roads by offering ‘colonial’ versions of