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A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs.

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road. The Red Lion, c1550, is an old coaching inn.

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield. Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

Keymer is at the foot of the Downs near Hassocks.The Norman church of St Cosmos and St Damian was re-built in 1866. Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote.

The post office on the left shut in 2004. Parked is a Hillman Imp with L-plates that in 1967 cost £665 at Alec Bennett in Portswood.

A rucksack-clad rambler (left) admires Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon.

Some of the windows in St Andrew's have been replaced by others designed by the sculptor and artist Henry Moore, who lived at nearby Hoglands in Perry Green.

During 1901 four new cargo liners for the IDWIMS Co entered service at Avonmouth: the 'Port Royal', 'Port Antonio', 'Port Maria' and 'Port Morant'.

This photograph was taken from the corner of Caroline Street and Queen Street. Davies's Buildings containing the post office was built in 1892 on the site of the Mackworth Arms (demolished 1890/91).

The elves on their toadstools in the foreground have disappeared - a life-saving device now stands on the spot between where the two elves once were.

At 1,424 ft long, this was one of the world's longest buildings; it was the first and the largest army hospital.

In 1955 the Grammar School would have been in preparation for its 25th anniversary the following year.

As an approach to Junction 1 of the M53 motorway, Leasowe Road (A551) is now dual carriageway for much of its length.

The billboard on the right of the Town Hall advertises 'The Wicked Lady' starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason, showing at the Alexander Picture Theatre (in St Margaret's Hall).

Very much an architectural relic of a former age, including its clock tower, the bus station looks very similar today, except that the high-level balcony on the left has gone.

Although flocks of sheep and herds of cattle no longer congregated at Tregaron ready for the walk to England, the town continued to serve as a market place for livestock for many years.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

This chapter ends at Great Houghton, south-east of Northampton. It is a small village with a few modern closes. The White Hart pub is little changed.

A little north of the attractive village of Naseby, on the Market Harborough road, this 40 ft high stone obelisk commemorates the Battle of Naseby at which the New Model Army routed the Royalists in 1645

The 'Welford Arm' runs east for one and a half miles from the Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal and opened in 1814.

Eight miles further north along the coast is Sutton on Sea, another seaside resort somewhat overshadowed by Mablethorpe, the two linked by caravan sites.

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

The lane just stops here, but not at the sea –beyond is an RAF bombing range. There are danger signs and red flags all over the place.