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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.

The lock is only accessible by water, for it is cut off from Whitchurch by a backwater and house gardens: even the Thames Path misses the river here, only going through the churchyard.

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

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. Opposite is Ixworth Dairy, with a Gothic shop front.

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 town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring. It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring. It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.

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

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

In the 1950s, Great British holidays enjoyed a revival. The pre-Beeching Act railways meant that people were able to visit a vast array of holiday destinations.

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.

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.

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

The County Council had been buying parcels of land in this area since the 1930s, in an attempt to preserve the native trees. Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge. It was the final station along the scenic route from Teesside to Whitby.

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.'

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

As the industrialisation of weaving gathered pace, the town was eventually reached by the railway in July 1848. Within forty years a bigger station had to be built.

The village also has a windmill, which at 80 feet is the tallest windmill to have been built on The Wirral.

The magnificent topiary gardens of Levens Hall, near Kendal, were laid out by the King's gardener Beaumont, who trained at Versailles, in 1692.

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

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

The 188 acres of Healey Dell became a Nature Reserve in 1976. Oak, birch and beech trees predominate and there are over 400 species of flora and over 60 species of birds.