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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.

The entire heart of the town has been moved over the hill to a new site, so that the little that remains of the old High Street is now totally run down.

Like many other Cotswold towns, Winchcombe's fortunes rested on the wool trade. But in Charles II's time, fortunes were also made locally by growing tobacco.

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

The young man's body was brought back to St Donat's, where it lay in state in the great gallery, looked down upon by the portraits of his equally dead ancestors.

Rawcliffe Hall was nearby, the home of the outrageous Squire Rawcliffe who burned down a windmill one bonfire night.

Weighing 3 cwt it was so heavy that it had to be brought down to ground level, as it was causing the wall to bulge. Near Fernbeck Cottages were found querns and bronze implements.

The timber building with steps leading down from the cliff (right) is the Pakefield lifeboat shed, which was washed away by 1905.

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth. Visiting ships now miss this magnificent suspension bridge.

High and Over, or Hindover, is a vantage point on the South Downs, overlooking the Cuckmere river valley.

Prior to the Second World War the house was pulled down and replaced with modern houses. An electric clock was installed in 1945.

This street, which is on the periphery of the main shopping area of Stourbridge, has now become rather run down - a pity, since there are one or two fine houses here dating from the 1700s,

This view down Silver Street, widened here at the junction with Gold Street in the 1930s, looks towards Dalkieth Place.

Further down, St Joseph's Catholic Church arrived in 1935: not a masterpice, it has to be admitted, and in a pallid Gothic style.

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

Further down on the left, and beyond the two cars, a grocer sells Lyon's tea and Wills Star cigarettes.

Mills were frequently rebuilt, and this mill replaces one that was burnt down in the 17th century.

Bridge Street was known as Beaufront Street until the Middle Ages, and the land still sloped down to the sea until these sea walls were built after the Civil War.

Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'little Venice', and its soft green lawns spread down to the water's edge.

The wearing of white coats was introduced in some towns during the Second World War; it gave the policeman at least a sporting chance of not being run down during the blackout.

The tower was taken down shortly after this photo was taken. The site of the church is now marked out in stones and there is a memorial table. The graveyard has become a pleasant open space.

Further up the road is the Victorian parish church, which replaced one of 1791 which itself replaced the medieval one, apparently burned down in the Civil War.

Our progress down-river reaches Dorchester. It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church.

19th-century race days on Danebury Downs brought many keen race-goers to Stockbridge, including Edward VII and Lily Langtry. Shops and eating houses would be bustling.