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The wooded and beautiful Luxulyan valley is a magnet for lovers of industrial archeology, with its 1839 Treffry viaduct and aqueduct linking the mining and china clay industries with the coastal ports.

Before Bullenshaw House was built, the area was wooded and provided a natural playground for youngsters. During the war two air-raid shelters were built into the hill.

The road climbs here along the chalk amid the beech woods of the Paradise Plantation. It picturesquely linked the old town with Meads, and was a popular stroll for visitors.

A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.

The lady in her long black dress and the gentleman wait for the ferryman to take them across to the western side of the lake, where the wooded Claife Heights stretch away to the right.

Kentish hops were much in demand, particularly of course by Kentish breweries such as Mackesons and Shepherd Neame.

North Street in front of us and the Market Place to the right, are now largely pedestrianised.

Lovely at all times of the year, the Golden Valley where Chalford clings on its hillside is indeed glorious when autumn touches its many wooded steeps and slopes, dips and dells with a golden

During the medieval period it was undoubtedly extensively wooded, and its name possibly means 'the grazing place of feral stallions'.

The sign by the people on the footpath advertises Woods, Coal & Coke Merchants, later to become 'Punch' Mullard's builder's yard and presently, Spinningfield House flats.

Railways made Victorian countryside accessible to city dwellers, and writers romanticised it so much that many moved out there. Urbanisation had begun.

On the right is the just completed War Office, and beyond is the Office of Woods and Forests. Bus routes 11 and 24 still run down Whitehall today.

We can see old shops in the photograph— S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher.The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.The scene is similar today

The houses in the picture still remain, but some are extended and altered, and they are now surrounded by newer residential properties.

Horses have given way to the ubiquitous motor car, and the village is catering for the car-borne tourist.

Ripon Cathedral was begun in the 12th century, and was enlarged, altered and repaired over the centuries.

The beautiful Luxulyan valley has great rounded granite boulders among the trees on its wooded slopes, and at one point it is crossed by a stone viaduct completed by Joseph Treffry in 1842 to carry both

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

The steep, densely wooded gorge below Dartmeet is a wild, inaccessible place, and farmers, exhibiting their usual good sense, have never tried to cultivate it.

By the 1650s Lionel Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”

In the 1920s, when the Lickeys were at the height of their popularity, several tea rooms were in business, and this one was still going strong in the 1950s.

Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle Top.