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Stone, slate and lime would be carried from the north, and Wigan coal from the south.

Old Sally Spencer walks with her stick down the steep lane into Cheddar in 1908. In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock.

Old Sally Spencer walks with her stick down the steep lane into Cheddar in 1908. In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

The Lighthouse was built by Trinity House on Anvil Point between 1880 and 1882, to fill the perilous gap between the rocks on Portland and the next cluster around the Isle of Wight.

The Cuckmere River rises six or so miles north-east of Hailsham and meanders past it to the west.

The gardens for the Prospect Hotel (rebuilt in 1870) on the corner used to extend down to the road and over the site of the memorial.

The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.

This is the commercial heart of Victorian Wallington, uphill from The Green, and we see a fine row of Edwardian shops with flats above.

Sand yachts were large four-wheeled vehicles mounting a yacht rig and capable of tearing up and down the beach at high speed.

We move to the third of our three rivers, and go high into the hills to find Colne Water. The area used to be known as Marsden.

Five months later, William and his wife went to visit the newly weds and 'after our call we walked up Hill field & looked over the works there. Fred is laying down money & no mistake.'

Its survival is due to Sir Gilbert Scott's putting his foot down most firmly. When a complete rebuild was proposed, he threatened to withdraw if the spire was removed.

We are looking down the street, away from the parish church, which gave the street its name. Church Street was never as busy or popular as Market Street.

Few buildings remain which pre-date the Enclosure Acts, effectively extinguishing the ties within rural communi- ties in much of Leicestershire, and indeed the Midland counties.

Further down, a large barn and an old house beyond. A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden.

St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe. Locally the church is known as 'the Queen of the Marsh'.

Baily's family turned down an offer to have him buried in Westminster Abbey when he died in 1844. Instead they chose a simple tomb in a Berkshire village.

We are looking eastwards along gated Ware Lane (centre) to Golden Cap (skyline, centre right) and Lyme Bay (right).

The village green is the largest in the Fylde and is graced by a duck-pond and the original village pump (other pumps were melted down and used for jointing new water mains by the Fylde Water Board).

Wolsey fell from grace when he failed to support Henry VIII’s wish to marry Anne Boleyn, and it was never completed.

The plainer frontage of Roberts' shoe shop is followed by the protruding shop windows of Hancock and Wood, shielded by sun awnings. Next comes the National Provincial Bank (now demolished).

A loop from the Coltishall to Wroxham road can take you down to the delightful small village of Belaugh.

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.