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Bognor as a resort had been founded by Sir Richard Hotham; its best late 18th-century buildings were a little inland and given the name 'Hothampton'.

Burgh Heath is very suburban, and its east side is blighted by the roaring traffic of the dual carriageway A217 Reigate road, which merges with the A23 Brighton road at Horley, south of Redhill

Cobham is architecturally not the equal of the similarly named Chobham.

The village of Radley is best known for its public school founded in 1847. To the east of its campus is the village, as it were at the gates of the school.

The local textile industry blossomed, and people moved into the village from the surrounding areas to work in the new mills. Quarries sprang up, and jobs were created.

Wareham St Martin's (right), standing on King Alfred's Town Walls, is Dorset's earliest complete church. Anglo-Saxon arcading was replaced by Norman arches in the 12th century.

Stone from here was used to build the docks at Liverpool, Holker Hall in Cumbria and Tatton Hall in nearby Knutsford.

The gardens are on the right of the picture; together with the Imperial Gardens, they testify to Cheltenham's love of flowers. The rotunda (now occupied by a bank) can be seen on the left.

The library is to be found in Boltro Road, which leads off Muster Green towards the railway station.

Titus Salt's Victorian idealism led him to believe that a happy, healthy and fulfilled workforce was productive workforce.

Once a port described by Daniel Defoe as 'fairer, and much deeper, than those at Watchet and Porlock', it turned into a major seaside bathing resort in the later 19th century.

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

A short stroll from the toll bridge brings you to the little church of St Mary's. Above the altar hangs an impressive picture of the Last Supper.

Given the Earl of Scarbrough's family name, Lumley Road is a straight road with the old High Street winding along south of it, diverging to the left of the trees to meet again at Lumley Square in front

Standing at a height of about 260 metres above sea level is the prominent landmark of Chanctonbury Ring.

The 13th-century church of St Nicholas is one of several of its kind presiding over the villages of east Kent.

Porritt houses had the reputation of being fine residential properties: Mr Porritt spent a quarter of a million pounds using the best materials, including stone from his quarries in East Lancashire.

At the pier entrance, near the bandstand and car park, there was a first aid post (right) on the edge of the remaining sand dunes.

This shows the overflow pond which was the location of Constable's 'The Haywain' (1821).

On the left is the garden of Holly Lodge, the home of the Roman Catholic priest father Henry Aust-Lawrence, which was itself to be used as a place of worship in the period 1912-1915.

The Pavilion, built in 1906 as the North Wales resorts sought to improve their entertainment facilities, has become a firm Rhyl favourite over the years.

Facing the Green Dragon across the road is a terrace of stone cottages, with the New Inn at the end. Next door to the Green Dragon, an antiquated Regent petrol pump indicates a garage.

The Great Ouse, navigable for over 75 miles from Bedford to the Wash, flows through Kings Lynn.

This is one of fifteen towers built with the defensive walls of the town between 1284 and 1396.