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A footpath for ramblers leads around the coastline to Keyhaven, and the estuary provides a good introduction to the delights of boating.

The village church, which can be seen on the right-hand side of the picture, was completed in the 1730s, and is unusual in that it has a pyramidal roof.

All the buildings in this view survive, including the smaller houses in Elms Avenue and the rather good 1850s stucco of the Belle Vue Hotel, with its arched ground floor windows and heavy moulded cornice

Standing near the top of a hill overlooking the Weald, the Star and Eagle is a fine half-timbered 15th-century inn adjoining the churchyard, and is believed to have had monastic connections.

Here we see the main street, with the sign of the Home and Colonial Stores prominent on the left and Universal Suppliers on the right.

King Guthrum, the first Danish king of East Anglia, had a palace at Hadleigh, and it is reputed that he is buried in the church.

Here the River Somer runs along the middle of the High Street, flowing over small weirs known as 'flashes'. It emerges from under the Island in the Square and runs down to Radstock.

The Lady Stanley sailed every day from the south end of the Parade to Weston Point.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

This 1878-built Primary School is still in use today, though an extension was built to the right of it about 30 years ago.

Peaceful now, this view shows the remains of the once-busy Shepherds Mill which lay on land between the Mells and the Frome Rivers.

The Anglo-Saxons almost certainly fortified Wallingford, and there was once an important castle here, though little of it survives today.

Cirencester's meandering street pattern developed in medieval times, a departure from the regimented grid system of Roman times.

On the other side of the green are the Reading Rooms and a tiny church.

Mayland is a flat marshy area on Mayland Creek, which empties into the River Blackwater. Although rather bleak in winter, in summer it is a busy centre for sailing.

The closest the railway ever reached to Britain's most southerly spot was Helston, eleven miles away, so visitors had either to come by car or take one of the excursion buses which were run from 1903 by

One could not be any nearer the sea than when you stayed at the Lanzarote Boarding House, the large building on the right of the photograph.

On the right of this photograph is the first Daventry bypass, dating from about 1935. A new bypass superseded it in the 1970s, when Daventry was expanded.

Reg Cundick gives an interesting history of it in his book. On Barclays Bank, left, is a sign for the Warminster Journal, which is still produced by Coates and Parker next door.

The parish church of St Margaret is built from local brown cobbles. The tower has a fine spire divided by two decorative bands above the spire lights.

A charming photograph of children walking along the path beside the pool, which is half a mile upstream on the river Cam from Grantchester.

Sandilands can be found just to the south of Sutton on Sea.

Its elaborate and recently restored war memorial stands on the junction with Church Lane. The main feature of the village, once dependant upon coal mining, is now Downside Abbey and School.

Its striking building is seen here in the centre of the picture. Unlike many similar local newspapers, it has survived to the present day at its Richmond Hill offices.