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De Montgomery was awarded Arundel, and given responsibility for defending the Sussex coast against possible French raids or even an invasion, both of which were considered a real threat.

Built in 1914 of local Longridge stone, this was the home of Sir John Townley and his family from 1947. Stone-framed windows, oak panels and a long drive suggest an earlier period.

We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.

Looking North-East to Fleet Street The junction to East Street is on the left, with Catherine Street on the right.

Situated in the forest of Charnwood, which was probably uninhabited prior to 1086, Woodhouse Eaves, with its close neighbour Swithland, is associated with the vast output of slate during the 18th

This inn is one of the 17th-century buildings in Westport to survive the Civil War skirmishes between the Royalists and the Parliamentary forces lead by Sir William Waller.

This superb Ketton stone-faced Gothic Revival church was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years later than its close neighbour, Cromer. Even then the trains arrived only from the Midlands and the North.

It was built as long ago as 1480; more recently, in 1919 it became the home of the actress Ellen Terry. Today it is a National Trust Memorial to Miss Terry.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.

He had stayed the night at Stoneyhurst, and it took most of the day for the horses, mules and men to cross.

At this time these shops would close at noon on Saturday, and Sunday opening was unheard of.

There had been a large crypt in the church where over 2,500 of Manchester's citizens were laid to rest, because there was no graveyard.

The commanding view of the town led to number of schemes to erect a monument: the first was to have been the Victoria Prospect Tower in 1849.

Fairford is situated on the River Coln a few miles from the Thames in Gloucestershire. It is noted for fishing, and for a fine old mill dating from a long-time dependency on wool.

The previous estate manager had been his father James Fair, who had had the task of laying out the streets, making wider access roads and building cottages.

(The song 'Flowers of the Forest' is a lament mourning the many Scottish dead who fell at that battle).

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.

One longstanding local commented: 'On a summer's evening, I can now hear the steam trains on the Watercress Line - you couldn't when the A31 was here.'

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

The White Lion Hotel on the right is still there today, and so is W D Cunliffe the grocers and bakers (telephone 123). Next to them, out of the picture, is now the Clitheroe Information Centre.

William the Conqueror's original royal fortress was a wooden tower on the motte, which in later generations would form the upper bailey.