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There is not much traffic other than a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

This beautiful display has survived, but vandalism and lack of funds has meant that many have disappeared.

These residential bungalows lining the harbour have been mostly swept away by hostile tides and the developments of the past century.

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square. The ornamental railings on the right are those of Botley Mill.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Although many of the buildings are today little changed from those shown here, the lack of pavements and tarmac on the street gives it a vastly different appearance.

A group of young children are seen standing in front of a barrier in Datchet village.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

Inside the church (not visible in this photograph) lies the tomb of Capability Brown, who became a cult figure among the aristocracy for his stylised landscaping.

This well, with its thirteen water jets, is a reconstruction of an earlier one destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's troops.

Fortunately for the hotel, it has been taken over by a group of local businessmen, and it looks much, much better now.

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

A lone tent sits on the empty sands.

Situated near the south end of High Street, this is generally regarded as the finest civic building of its period in the country.

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

The church of St Mary was founded in the 11th century and was enlarged and over-restored in the Victorian era, but it still retains its Norman chancel and original windows.

This wide sweep of sand leads to Whitby in the distance.

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

This first chapter is a tour from west to east in the parts of Surrey most affected by London. We start in Egham, a town on higher ground south of the River Thames.

The war memorial replaced an earlier obelisk with gas lamps attached; this had stood in the middle of what was a sheep market until 1885, the livestock market then moving to a new site in Bury

Summertime flash floods are a fact of life at Upwey, where the River Wey flows southwards beside Church Street to Westbrook Farm and the Manor House.

The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.

This photograph of the 15th-century Market Cross shows just how far the original concept of a market town has moved in the 20th century.

This photograph shows the view north-westwards up Church Street from beside the Old Monmouth Hotel, with the churchyard railings on the right.