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The Church of England School dates back to Victorian times, and occupied a site at the top of St Neots Road until 1987, when it was transferred to its present location in Ivel Road.

When this picture was taken, visitors wishing to see round the ruins had to get the key to the gate from the sexton.

When this picture was taken, visitors wishing to see round the ruins had to get the key to the gate from the sexton.

Broad Street hints at Ottery's original Saxon street layout.

The car park has disappeared with the building of flats and shops. But the shop on the right has survived, albeit with the loss of its decorative railings.

Newbiggen (`new building`) Street sprang up in response to the town`s medieval prosperity. It was once called `Vikerestrete`.

It is mostly a residential street, illuminated by gas lamps at this date; but there is a group of shops on the right.

The hamlet at the foot of Buttermere in the western Lake District takes its name from the lake; it is still the farming settlement it has always been.

Down in this very picturesque village, the cottage beyond the lych gate has the village hall attached at the far end, all beneath a continuous thatched roof.

This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

It is named after the Earls of Essex, who lived at Chartley Hall.

He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores. Note the cottage's tall chimney, creating the draught necessary to produce a good fire.

The Green Man, at Mulberry Green, may well be Harlow's oldest pub. It dates from the 16th century.

Grassington was once a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 relied on agriculture and quarrying. In 1902 the railway came to the village, with the opening of a line to Skipton.

For a few years around the turn of the 20th century, Worplesdon's cricket pitch was at the foot of Rickford Hill on the edge of the common.

Traffic restrictions and the roundabout by the Whyteleafe Tavern are still many years away, but the post office remains at 217 Godstone Road on the right.

By the Victorian drinking fountain at the entrance to Botley station lies a memorial tablet which reads:'this stone is erected to perpetuate a most cruel murder committed on the body of Thomas Webb

Sidlesham is a hamlet near Pagham Harbour.The 13th- century church of St Mary is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area.

This was the water tower for St Mary's Abbey.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

Steps from the Highcliffe (right) descend to the beach at North Swanage, beyond the promenade (upper centre) where the cliffs are skirted by beach huts.

The long bridge over the wide Usk river separates Crickhowell from the neighbouring village of Llangattock.

A Georgian house called Belle Vue was built at the foot of Newton Road in the 1780s.