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Newnham is situated south of Daventry, and is reached by a narrow country lane passing over Newnham Hill.

Leighton Buzzard's name has nothing directly to do with birds of prey, despite several local organisations adopting the title 'The Buzzards' and using the hawk as an emblem.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

The fine setting of the town church is shown in this picturesque view through the gateway.

Helston Penrose Walk 1913 Penrose Walk runs from the bottom end of Coronation Park down to the Loe and follows its shore to Penrose.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

When Basil Spence designed Coventry's new cathedral, he incorporated the bombed ruins of the old St Michael's into the modern building; the old church became the new cathedral's vestibule.

The first master plan drawn up by Henry Currey, the Duke of Devonshire's surveyor, covered the stucco seaside terrace and squares.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

East of Camberley, the route moves on to the villages between Bagshot and Guildford along the A322 on the east side of the sandy heathland of the Bagshot Sands; on the map we see army firing

In the last forty or so years, very little has changed in the High Street, although the recently built premises of the Midland Bank (right) has now become a private house.

Here we see another view of the main street. The jaunting car tells of the recent changes, and the lamps tell of a gasworks only waiting to be expanded.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Impressive as this memorial to Viscount Leverhulme is, it should not be forgotten that there is another, and a very live one, on the Western Isles.

A thousand years ago, Fareham was a patchwork of ancient woodland, heathland, some cultivated fields, a harbour and a river.

The village in which John Bunyan once lived has almost become a place of pilgrimage.

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

Some of the streets of Vickerstown were named after renowned people from the recent Boer War (1899-1902).

The small stone village of Beddgelert stands at the confluence of the Colwyn and Glaslyn rivers. It sits in the shadow of Snowdon, and is a favourite tourist spot.

Holyhead is best known as the ferry port for Ireland, and stands on Holy Island, linked by a causeway to the Isle of Anglesey.

When he died the country was still 90% Saxon; the Normans' policy, like the Romans', was 'divide and rule', with the majority of England's two million people subject to the Norman fist.

The town of Runcorn is behind the bridge; the retaining wall of the Manchester Ship Canal can be seen along the edge of the River Mersey.

This broad open space is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.