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They look even more unnatural these days, as they are severely pollarded in the French style, but they would be much missed if they were removed.

The cyclists here obviously felt sufficiently safe not to worry too much about hugging the kerb and avoiding brushes with the traffic.

The lofty 12-arched viaduct spanning the Tamar took four years to build. Since opening in 1908, it has carried the branch railway from Plymouth to Gunnislake, and formerly Callington.

Along with places like Looe, Polperro and St Ives, Mevagissey has long been a fishing port much loved by artists and visitors alike.

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

The road has not been improved very much today.

Notice the horse-drawn cart and the absence of much other traffic.

Along the line is the ninety-nine-arch bridge containing 800 million bricks.

Although the register dates from around 1560, the beautiful interior of the church owes much to restoration carried out in the mid-1800s.

Fashion decreed that much of Georgian society should follow the monarch's example, creating a minor bathing resort on the edge of what had been a lonely estuary.

The road here winds down towards the sea, past the church of All Saints, with its decorative wrought-iron arch. Behind the church is an attached farm and tithe barn.

The north aisle wall was moved when the aisle was widened in 1846, but the Norman arcades remain; they have three bays, with unmoulded arches of simple imposts with slight chamfering.

These date from the 17th century, and comprised several shops in an arched arcade with living accommodation above.

The three-arched structure was designed by George Rennie and opened by King William IV in the 1830s.

The cannon would not have been much use in 1940. Mablethorpe is to the right and north.

Looking along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the T-junction with the Trent & Mersey, an attractive bridge carries the latter's towpath across the former on a slender brick arch with

These date from the 17th century, and comprised several shops in an arched arcade with living accommodation above.

This fine view of Dorchester from the meadows alongside the River Frome shows the county town of Dorset much as Thomas Hardy would have known it when, as an apprentice architect, he would walk there

The church, St John the Baptist is essentially 14th century, although much of the interior has been re-modelled.

After 50 years, very much as one would expect, with the exception that one of the pine trees has been removed.

This huge parish church, the size of a cathedral, owes much to the generosity of Bristol's merchants, such as William Canynge (who died in 1396) and his grandson William Canynge the younger (1394?

Much of the surrounding countryside has been used for military training since World War Two.

Much later it became a fashionable seaside resort, its seafront and neighbouring streets lined with handsome Georgian and Victorian villas.

In 1908 Marble Arch lost the neighbouring neighbourhood building, and the ground was cleared as far as Park Lane to the left. It was on an island site, but this had not yet become a roundabout.