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On the right-hand side is The Golden Cross Hotel, rebuilt in 1932 on the site of one of Bromsgrove`s oldest coaching inns.

Cattistock is well known as a centre for foxhunting - the local pack is one of the best-supported in England.

Across the sluggish waters of the River Stour, the Bridgegate, usually called the Barbican, was built in 1539 with semi-circular flanking bastions.

This view was taken across the River Stour from Middleton in Essex.

One of the largest markets in the country, looking across to the church of St Peter Mancroft. one of the largest and most impressive parish churches in England.

Holdenhurst has retained its rural setting near the banks of the River Stour, despite the sprawl of Bournemouth across its more distant meadows.

With such a fine view across the bay to St Ives, it is little surprise that holidaymakers should have come to camp at Hayle Towans.

It is easy to see here how the Bell Tower dominates the neighbourhood - it was originally designed partly as a landmark to attract and guide the faithful across the Vale of Evesham.

It was originally just Tanworth, but the suffix was added in the 19th century to avoid confusion with Tamworth, which is now in Staffordshire but was then in Warwickshire.

Across the Great Ouse we reach Biddenham, now virtually joined to Bedford by housing estates.

On the left, in Rickinghall Inferior, is the bow window of Edmund Kerry's hardware and newsagent's shop.

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

Moving north of the Checker and across Abbey Close and into Abbey Gardens, we reach the site of the abbey church, which was about 300 feet long, and the cloisters and monastic buildings.

The eastern end of Bell Street is crossed by Knight Street, a wide road leading from Station Road to Fair Green where a market and fair have been held since the charter was granted in 1306.

The landscape designer Lancelot `Capability` Brown is buried here at Fenstanton with his wife and children.

The footpath crosses the river firstly over the weir and then across the Chinese Bridge.

Across the chalk ridge, the route returns to the greensand country, and to one of Surrey's prettiest and most wooded areas.

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

There are plaques recalling this, and the Corps standard is laid up in the church.

That name is read, said and rings out across the world.