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The chestnut palings are now a smart well-trimmed beech hedge.

To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.

The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.

Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was. The rails have been removed, and a pleasant cycle track has been installed.

The large house is The Beeches, and beyond it is the office of Mulley's Motorways. This firm ran local bus and coach services from 1939 until 1975.

It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.

The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.

It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.

The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.

The pre-Beeching Act railways meant that people were able to visit a vast array of holiday destinations.

View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.

Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.

Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.

The railway line was axed during the Beeching era, and the sturdy bridge was lost at that time. The picture shows the extent of the small village.

With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'

Here the beech and box are coaxed into strange and wonderful shapes, including chessmen, birds, beasts, a lion and a judge's wig.

The last train to run from the town was in October 1963, which was even before the Beeching cuts. The market opened in 1868, and the Co-op was here from 1872, complete with its own Fire Brigade.

The copper beech, whose leaves we can just see on the left, was planted in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.

This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.

Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

Oak, birch and beech trees predominate and there are over 400 species of flora and over 60 species of birds.