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A loop from the Coltishall to Wroxham road can take you down to the delightful small village of Belaugh.

The Swan Hotel on the left, an 18th-century building, has just had its ground floor reworked in this view; it was owned by the Southdown and East Grinstead Breweries, whose brewery was further down

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

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

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

Here they load up with china clay brought down by rail from St Austell. Fowey, although packed in the summer with leisure craft, does retain the atmosphere of a bustling, working port.

The River Wye frames the town centre, running in a loop around the western and southern sides.

Behind the disused mill was the Wharfedale Brewery, which supplied many of the town's 15 taverns. The brewery closed during the First World War, and was then used as billets for troops.

The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

This view looks down Prestatyn's High Street, towards the new Rehoboth Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, which had opened the previous year, and the spire of Christ Church, built in 1863.

No doubt the kiosk sold tickets for the boats at the end of the pier, but for a generation which knew nothing of cars it also led to a railway system opening up the delights of County Down.

Pier Hill leads down to the sea front esplanade, with the Palace Hotel on the left. Below the hotel, facing the sea, are many small shops.

Next to the hotel (centre) were warehouses dating from 1824, where flax, cotton and guano manure were stored; but these were pulled down in 1965.

Further down Northgate Street is The New Inn, still in business today and one of the best-preserved medieval galleried inns in the country.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Scots fisher girls followed the herring shoals down to the port in the autumn and worked tirelessly day and night gutting and packing.

Today there are a variety of shops here, ranging from specialist boutiques to a picture framer just down from the market hall.

In 1959 a pedestrian bridge (C294083, pages 48-49) was built on the Cooperative side to the rear of the new shops; it was used until 1964, when it was taken down.

Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.