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We are looking along Grosvenor Road towards the A26 to Tonbridge and London from the town centre at Five Ways, with Mount Ephraim Road on the left.

Shop and inn make up the heart of this village, built round the edge of an enormous village green. There was a market here from at least 1280.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria's realm.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of the Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.

The narrowness of the thoroughfare must have posed problems for the driver of the horse-drawn wagon seen halted outside the barn at the end.

Paul is the mother village for Mousehole, which lies down on the coast below.

Set at the centre of a generous open space adjoining The Parade, Webb's was the foremost hotel for Victorian travellers, and was built in 1833 to serve the coaching trade.

A few visitors peer out at the sun from under their umbrellas. They must have been sweltering from the heat in their heavy dark clothes - leisure-wear had not yet been invented.

The Spa can be seen on the left, but the familiar cliff paths had not been made at this time - it would have been more easily accessible from Royal Crescent, developed by George Hudson.

Half the pleasure of being on holiday oneself is watching others working, and it certainly was hard work for the fishermen off-loading their catch at the market.

The Wesleyan church on the right dates from 1844, and is typical of the big town chapels at that time.

It was to Cardiff Castle that Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, was brought after his defeat at Tinchebrai in 1106, having made war on both William Rufus and Henry I.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.

Well-designed bollards and street signs front a typical road-house at the junction of the Great North Road with the lesser east-west Elstree to Chipping Barnet Road.

The county boundary between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk actually runs along the middle of the river at this point, so the church is in Norfolk, while the pub is in Cambridgeshire!

Jesus Lock is the limit of navigation on the River Cam for powered craft.

Loading outside the Co-op is a mobile fish shop.

It is entirely possible that Queen Katherine of Aragon worshipped in the 10th-century church during her stay at Ampthill Castle in 1533.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as clubhouses and

The River Cuckmere, whose Saxon name means 'flowing water', rises in the Weald and meanders southwards past Alfriston to enter the sea at Cuckmere Haven between Seaford Head and the Seven Sisters.

Much of the downland around Findon, at the southern end of the same 'wind-gap' in the South Downs, was for centuries an open sheep-walk.

Red Hill is one of the pleasantest streets in Stourbridge, created centuries ago by cutting through the red sandstone which outcrops locally.

Dr Boddington was a local man; in 1840 he wrote a pioneering paper on the treatment of TB, then known as pulmonary consumption.

The original George Hotel was Walsall's chief coaching inn during the era when the town was served by at least a dozen coaches daily.