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Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

An early experiment using water-carts to damp down the streets found that it took 7,000 gallons to water one mile of street, 18 feet in width, at a cost of 8s 4d per mile.

The two old houses in the centre show how piecemeal were the alterations carried out by various owners down the centuries: below each has a wall of stone rubble, and above at least two courses of brick

After hanging for three hours, his body was taken down and quartered.

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.

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.

Further down the hill is De Barr's shoe shop. The large brick-faced building on the corner of George Street announces A V Britton, cars and coaches for hire.

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

Bram Stoker, the author of 'Dracula', stayed in Royal Crescent in 1890; he imagined his heroine, Mina, running after the sleep- walking Lucy as she went 'along North Terrace and down the

Unlike many of its rivals, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire never sold out to the railway companies, some of whom made a policy of buying up canals, then running them down so that they could gradually

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).

Going north to the Godstone to Reigate road, that part of the A25 that runs along the greensand ridge south of the North Downs, we reach the village of Bletchingley.

The 1890s terrace with its four gabled full-height bay windows steps down the hill; the left-hand one on the corner of Outwood Lane is now no longer a Barclays Bank, but the offices of financial consultants

Note the house halfway down the street on the left with six windows and a central pedimented doorcase. This is Unicorn House, No 28, which had its moment in history.

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.

You could get your feet wet stepping down into the Southdown Omnibus Office over on the far side of the Square and what on earth is that greenhouse doing in front of the statue?

Down past the latticed railway bridge is the new road over the bridge to Middleton. At this time, before the First World War, the town is still very relaxed.

Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river. One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

The walls have been constructed of flints (which are copious in the chalk hills of the South Downs) and edged with stone at the windows and doors.

The building is of about 1300 with an unbuttressed west tower of 1707, when its spire was taken down. As

The bare chalk in this view of the Whiteleaf Cross is nowadays not seen so clearly; the downs have since become covered in trees and scrub, with woods in the middle distant field.

As we move further west, we see a part of St Mary's Street with an interesting mix of buildings with alleys leading down to the river front and The Meadows.