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We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

The imperative behind its building, below the earthworks of a former signal station on Round Down, was a series of shipwrecks which culminated with the loss of the 1,250-ton Liverpool sailing ship

Then it flows through the South Downs to reach the English Channel at Cuckmere Haven, where there is no port or settlement, unlike at Sussex's other river mouths such as the Arun, the Adur

Down the road is the Sussex border and East Grinstead.

The gardens for the Prospect Hotel (rebuilt in 1870) on the corner used to extend down to the road and over the site of the memorial.

The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.

About ten miles north-east of Penrith, near Staffield, pathways have been cut along the banks of the Croglin Beck where it tumbles down through the sandstone gorge it has carved on its way

Now we look westwards down the south side of West Street, from Knight and Son, tailors (far left). The next building housed stationer and printer W Frost who published the 'Bridport News'.

Their canted full-height bay windows step down the hill in an elegant rhythm.

The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

Boys used to arrive on the railway located down Old Station Road behind the photographer. The village shop seen here dates from 1856.

Farther down the A330 is Stud Green, a hamlet of Holyport. Its character is now largely suburban, following much rebuilding. This view looks west.

Bramber was once the main town of one of the Sussex Rapes, or Anglo-Saxon administrative areas, and the seat of William de Braose's Norman castle guarding the Adur gap through the Downs.

The last mill burned down in 1905, though at one point there had been two mills here - one paper, one wheat. Coal, timber, lime and dung were the other major cargoes passing through.

Down below at the foot of the hill, the wind blowing off the summit on a cold day can make the village of Clee seem bleak.

The cottages down Abbey Street to the left of the memorial have gone, and the United Counties Bus Company now have a garage there.

The former post office is now called Journey's End, taking its name from the best known work of the playwright Robert Cedric Sherriff (1896-1975); he retired here to Downhouse Farm below Eype Down (background

The Bute Arms (further down the street on the left) gets its name from the Marquises of Bute, great landowners in South Wales and important nationally.

Compared to the new road bridge (left) the railway bridge on the right seems so clumsy – its foundations had to be built under the water, and go down some 45 feet below the low-water mark

Pier Hill leads down to the sea front esplanade, with the Palace Hotel on the left.

Though it now looks like a typical early 20th- century roadhouse, the Prince of Wales has much older origins: the earlier thatched hostelry was burnt down in 1930.

On race days this intersection was crowded with pedestrians and traffic making their way to the racecourse on Epsom Downs.

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.