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On the high road between Dorchester and Exeter, less than three miles east of Lyme Regis, Charmouth is reputed to have been one of the Roman stations and the later scene of fierce struggles between the

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The houses beyond stood in the Dartford Road. The ground was given to the town in perpetuity in the late 18th century by the 3rd Duke of Dorset.

The road leads to the village of Hursley, and all this area was once part of the Hursley Manor Estate. The service station on the left is now a car showroom.

Its frontage facing the road is severe and almost without windows, only the landlord's flat above, with its characteristic 1960s zig-zag tiles, has sizeable windows.

The long-time motto all along the front of the large road-side buildings was 'Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight', which is a quotation from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Stamford Road School can be seen in the distance.

The International Stores, housed in a Georgian building on the left, was in a prime position on the corner of Meadow Road.

Stamford Road School can be seen in the distance.

Known as the Queensway Tunnel, it was at the time the only road tunnel under the River Mersey; it had opened in 1934. It soon replaced the car ferries and luggage boats.

The biggest excitement hereabouts in recent times was when the rector's son Donald Ridler set out along the road with his home-made boat 'Erik the Red', in which he sailed alone to America to prove the

Newgate Street is one of the features of the town -it marks the line of a section of the old Roman road of Dere Street.

If a stone passed through the ring, it was the correct size for road building. Allen asked Macadam what would happen if the ring was ever lost.

The large very attractive Saxon village on the road from Oakham to Stamford now overlooks the modern dam on the north-east angle of Rutland Water formed in the valley of the River Gwash,

Next door is the Gift Shop, and across the road is J A Norman, selling fruit and vegetables. Also in the High Street was the Ship Inn, which had a very strong connection with smugglers.

The village lies just off the old Great North Road, whose dual carriageway successor passes it half a mile to the west.

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

South of the town, beyond the modern A57 by-pass, accessed via a long avenue from the Netherton Road, is Worksop College.

The road to the right of the Three Cups Inn is St Mary`s Street.

This view, looking downhill, is now barely recognisable: the cottages by the telegraph pole were cleared for 1960s road widening.

Here we look south along Godstone Road, with the church tower on the right.

Its architectural highlight is the Wyatt Almshouses of 1622 on the Guildford Road; but our view is in Farncombe Street, looking west to the railway level crossing.

Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s