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A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

We are standing on the small brick-parapeted bridge over the Walthambury Brook.

The pretty village of Calbourne lies among the downlands of the Isle of Wight. Its lovely Early English church boasts many fine monuments and is among the oldest on the Island.

The old coaching inn, half way down Brook Street on the left, had the unusual name of the Farmer's Man. It has since closed, and is now called Farmers Man Cottage.

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

This is the Steeping river flowing towards the Wash and the North Sea. Earlier in its life it had more publicity, as it is also known as Tennyson's brook.

Its location at the entrance to Brook Lane is a mixed blessing.

This view looks up Olde Barn Passage past Brookes Court. In the distance is Richman's and St Mary's Street.

The Fighting Cocks Inn can be seen on our left, but the Hero of Inkerman was demolished to make way for the new by-pass, and was re- built further to the left.

The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall. It pumped water from a spring in Hall Meadows.

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.

Mr Brooks' grocery shop has been gone for many years now. The River Meon still threads its way through this delightful village to the sea.

During and after the First World War Blandford became well-known as a military training area, with a large army base nearby. The poet Rupert Brooke trained here during the First World War.

Ten years and one world war later, time seems to have stood still in the town. We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.

Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water, and the village church is a charming medieval survival. It is wonderful that such places have survived so well into the modern age.

This village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

In all, with additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath

Winsford's granite cross commemorates the dead of both World Wars.

The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall. It pumped water from a spring in Hall Meadows.

Before the arrival of the LCC Harold Hill housing estate, Noak Hill was an isolated hamlet; however the thatched weather-boarded cottage on the right still remains to this day.

Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke. To the right are the walls and gate piers of the Methodist Church built in 1874.

Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth.

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.