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Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

Around 350 years before this tranquil scene was captured, horses like these would have been ridden around the village by the knights of King Henry VIII.

These are Coppice House, Hollypiece House and Homemeadow House, named after fields on the Fox Hollies estate. The flats occupy the site of Zaccheus Walker's mansion, The Hollies.

The 19th-century cotton industry brought great wealth to Clayton, some of which went to build the church.

The street takes its name from the priory of Dominican friars, founded in the 13th century. The tree marks the site of the now demolished Congregational church.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.

This view looks along Caldy Road with the part stone, part half-timbered Reading Room on the right. It was built by the Barton family in 1883.

The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

The massive twin-towered Westgate is the only survivor of the six medieval gates which once interrupted the path of the Norman wall around the city. The rest were pulled down in 1781.

Here we see shoppers in the centre of town on what was obviously a warm summer's morning, and with a surprisingly low level of traffic.

A continuation of Church Street, Chapel Street leads on to the High Street.

Back into town, this view from Orange Grove looks along past Brydon's Municipal Buildings of 1893, 'rendered necessary by the large increase of public business since the erection of the central building

Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath

The village of Chain Bridge is on the River Usk.

Parts of this beautiful old building date back to the middle years of the 16th century.

This view down Bridge Street, looking towards Bridge Foot, shows the impact of the redevelopment of the earlier 20th century.

Bank Park was fashioned out of the private gardens of Bank Hall.

This is a general view of Chapel's cobbled market place, one of the highest in the county at 760ft above the sea.

Trinity Presbyterian Church opened in 1895; before it was built, the hall at the rear of the church opened for worship in 1889.

Not far from the imposing Buckden Pike, here is a picture of tranquillity in the upper section of Wharfedale.

On our route towards Watchet we move inland to Old Cleeve, a village grouped round a triangle of narrow steep lanes and amazingly secluded.

This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.