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Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England

After 1803 the environs of the Dawlish Water were landscaped to provide the kind of pleasure grounds expected in fashionable resorts of this period.

In this unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Using local timber from the woodlands along the estuary, the shipbuilders of Bucklers Hard, who would have lived in these cottages, built at least three of the ships which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar

The Douglases were a powerful family: they were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway and skilled in war.

The church of St Mary the Virgin at Upper Swainswick dates from Norman times.

By 1711 the church possessed five bells and a set of chimes.

Here we see the remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Agatha.

The village used to be called Auldkirk, because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the 16th century.

This magnificent stone bridge was built in the early 1800s to replace another that was washed away in the floods of 1797.

Mardy village in 1955 had far less housing than it does today. The semi-detached houses on the left of this picture were the only buildings at that date.

One of the darkest deeds in English history took place in Saxon times, when King Edward was murdered, probably by order of his stepmother, in 978.

This is a closer view of the Church of St Thomas. One might almost call it a utility building.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

Even the wooden gate (centre) is newer, but of the same functional design.

How sad – this is the end of our photographic journey around this part of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Taking its name from the wife of Edward VII, the park was officially opened on 25 June 1902 – the date scheduled (but not kept) for his coronation.

De Vaux Place 1928 On the Salisbury side of Harnham Bridge, De Vaux Place leads to The Close - the Harnham Gate is at the far end of the wall.

This view looks towards one of the entrances to the series of underground canals that extended to the Duke's pits at Walkden.

He is in the gown of an Alderman, and he was a Lord Mayor of London.

The pound lock replaced the hazardous flash locks in the middle of the weir in 1773.