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The stately 212ft-high Perpendicular tower of Derby's Cathedral of All Saints, which dominates this view of Iron Gate, still exerts a powerful influence on the county's biggest city.

The County Primary School is set back behind the Globe.

This is a strangely remote part of the county, whose beauty is guarded and reserved, although surrounded by the richness of the Weald.

Builth Wells is in 'the county of rivers', and the River Wye lazily winds its way around this old spa town. Mineral waters were first discovered at Builth in the 1700s.

Burford sits right on the county boundary with Herefordshire - the boundary is defined by the River Teme at this point.

Loughor, the starting point for this Carmarthenshire tour, is not actually in the county; it is separated from it by the river Loughor, and is on the outskirts of Swansea.

In the north of the county sits Silchester. This modern clock tower is part of Silchester House, built in 1820, but the clock tower is more modern.

St Andrew's has been described as 'the stateliest church of its time in the county'.

It is hard to imagine that St Germans, close by, was once the seat of the Cornish bishopric, its church the most important in the county until the building of Truro Cathedral.

It is the capital of the county, and in the late 1890s held assizes and sessions, and was the militia headquarters.

Today Burton is a conservation area; in fact, the village has to be one of the most attractive in the county.

The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Controlled growth has kept this, the largest town in England's smallest county, a pleasant and compact community.

Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as 'the greatest market town in the county of Hereford'.

It lies a little to the west of Penn, just across the county border in Staffordshire (where Penn also used to belong, of course).

Set in the midst of particularly fertile part of the county, Ottery had a market for centuries.

A complex house architecturally with 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century elements, it has long been owned by Northamptonshire County Council and used for residential and day courses.

In the days when Middlesex encompassed much of what is now Greater London, Brentford remained the important county town, though the title was more or less ceremonial - real administrative

Cockermouth was granted its market charter in 1221, and gradually developed in importance, until it was the chief commercial centre of the old county of Cumberland.

On the upper reaches of the Wear and once a part of County Durham, Washington was where William Doxford built his first ships before moving to Pallion in the 1870s.

Bus timetables announce United Counties services. Lyons lollies and Woodbines are on sale, no doubt amongst many other useful necessities.

Clarence House is now one of Essex County Council`s community education centres: it runs such things as residential art courses.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway. The oldest building, the Bishop's Palace, fronts the river beside the great medieval church of All Saints.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway. The oldest building, the Bishop's Palace, fronts the river beside the great medieval church of All Saints.