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The Avenue leads round to Normanby Road, which recalls the landowners of the nearby Normanby Hall and Estate.

The creeper-covered wall between the iron fence and the cottage gable is in fact the dam wall for the mill. Now a silted up boggy patch, the mill pond can still be made out.

The writer would regularly walk many miles in a day, often leaving home very early in the morning and not returning until late in the afternoon.

Five miles east of Sleaford, Heckington is a village widely known for its superb 14th-century Decorated Gothic parish church with its 185 foot high spire, rich carvings and sinuous window tracery.

Just over two miles east of Upper Boddington, Byfield is a village that expanded with the arrival of the railway. This view is on the High Street, part of the A361 Banbury to Daventry road.

In a well-treed setting, the church is seen from the west. This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

Now used as a forge, the old mill was originally used for the grinding of corn.

This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds.

The village's only junction is shown here.

Mitton means 'the village where the streams meet'. The Hodder and the Ribble meet here, and that is what gave the area its name.

On 26 June 1685 the village was the scene of a skirmish between 350 royalist troops and rebel forces of the Duke of Monmouth. Monmouth lost his nerve and turned away from Bristol.

Peveril Castle stands on a hill 260ft above the village, yet despite its looks it was far from impregnable; it was even in Scottish hands for a number of years.

The parish church of St Michael is one of the most interesting in the Lake District.

This view is from the beach towards the village. The road was developed in the Victorian period, and most of the houses and shops, like those on the right, are of that date.

One of the finest churches in Cheshire, St Mary's has a lovely setting overlooking the village green.

Looking up Trafford Road, one can see the large villas on the Edge, above the village that serviced their needs.

Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).

The village of Coolham is probably best known for a lovely old house known as the 'Blue Idol'. The house dates from the time of the Armada in 1588, and was originally a Friends' Meeting House.

At the Melton sign the A606 does a double- bend.

This shows the view from the roof of Bent's Brewery. In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village.

A close inspection of the brickwork of St Bartholomew's Church reveals the date when the tower was built - 1702. The main body of the church was completed two years later.

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve.

In the mid 19th century the wealthy Rev John Lance built himself a large vicarage and replaced the small 15th-century church with one so large that it was nicknamed the 'Cathedral of the Blackdown Hills

There has been much debate about the age and significance of these four giant stones a mile north of the village.