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The Union Overseers' Boxes are to this day preserved in Petersfield Museum in St Peter's Road.

It still has an ancient church, a working mill and a collection of farmhouses along roads and lanes that have changed very little in the last 200 years.

`Accommodation for TEA PARTIES`, the sign reads. 'Ginger Beer Lemonade Sold Here.' Francis Long,in Bradpole Road at nearby Bridport, was the local soft drinks manufacturer.

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

We are looking north across the river toward Bishop's Road, conspicuous by its buses.

With a gorse-clad common, walks through fields and woods and a car factory just up the road in Luton, what better place for a dream come true?

This view looks south towards London, along the narrow stretch of Ermine Street or the Old North Road, with its overhanging 17th-century houses and gables.

The close-timbered building on the opposite side of the road is St John's Guildhall, founded in 1476, and partly occupied by Day's bakery.

Just to the north of the church, the buildings on the west side of the road take on a varied appearance, the most special being the Three Swans Hotel, which has its origins from at least the early 17th

In the 19th century the road was dug out but higher ground remains in front of the houses.

We are just below the Downs on the main road between Midhurst and Chichester. The church has a 14th-century tower, and a mural painting in the nave dated 1220. The rebuilt Manor House is nearby.

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street. The raised bank followed the Taw from Castle Quay and turned right to follow the Yeo to Braunton Bridge.

Crown Hill was the setting for an unusual wager in 1936: a Grays confectioner was bet that he could not cycle backwards up the 1-in-7 road. He

In the manor of Little Askrigg we find this road junction - if we go right, we reach Carperby (4 miles) and Leyburn (12 miles). Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery.

The Yorkshire Dales are criss-crossed by a network of ancient drovers' roads, like this one in Coverdale, a quiet dale which runs into the lower reaches of Wensleydale.

The impressive edifice of the Queen's Hotel is angled and was originally envisaged to form one section of a 'circus' of buildings, close to the approach road to the town's railway station.

Placed beside the Alfred East Gallery, the memorial faces Northampton Road, still tree-lined in 1922.

The path through the park was supposed to follow the route of a Roman road.

Approaching the village from the west along the Botley Road, we see on the right All Saints' Church, built in 1836 in Early English style. The village war memorial is on the left of the picture.

Just beyond the precinct, a builder named Trickett built an estate of bungalows with Bodycoats Road through the centre.