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The 19th-century lock keeper's cottage with the hipped roof was rebuilt by the Thames Conservancy in 1928.

In the picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared for work. On the roofline a builder stands on a scaffolding platform repairing a chimneystack.

The medieval Treasurer's House, owned by the National Trust, is just out of view to the right, beside the creeper-clad house.

Designed by Nathaniel Ireson, who also designed Crowcombe Court in The Quantocks for James Medlycott, it is a most elegant composition framed by the cedars.

Burwell means 'spring by the fort'. It was here at this fen-edge settlement that William the Conqueror and Geoffrey de Manderville made their defensive stand for the island of Ely.

The 14th-century abbey was built on land that once belonged to Abingdon Abbey, and was used as a summer retreat by the monks there.

Wicker baskets carried by the ladies (in the right-hand rowing boat) were very much a feature of life until quite recent times.

The locomotive comes tender-first into Newby Bridge station, where it is awaited by the station master and passengers.

We can see the back of the boat station, with 'cushion huts' peeping out behind the strolling crowds, whilst to the right 'Schneider's gate' is flanked by the bold 'Belsfield Hotel' sign.

The peace and quiet they are obviously enjoying has gone now: it is shattered by the M40 motorway close by.

The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company; one of the boats is mooored close by.

Here lies the old town, whose narrow and crooked streets have been cloaked by the fine sea front.

Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past

The village has mostly limestone buildings; the cedars remain in its churchyard, which is dominated by the pinnacle-topped 15th-century tower.

The caves were formed about 400 million years ago by the rainwater boring through the limestone.

This one was acquired by the council in 1884 for £30,000 from Sir John Ramsden, who personally contributed £5,000. The land was previously part of the Greenhead Hall estate.

The bridge was rebuilt around 1900 by the Aylesbury Urban District Council in purple engineering brick. The building on the far left is the corner of the Nestle's works.

This hamlet is to the south of Boxford and separated from it since 1975 by the bypass.

This small but busy inland port was heavily used by the local mining and quarrying industries.

Burgh Heath is very suburban, and its east side is blighted by the roaring traffic of the dual carriageway A217 Reigate road, which merges with the A23 Brighton road at Horley, south of Redhill

There has been much rebuilding of this part of the High Street, none of it for the better, since the 1950s; continuity has been achieved only by the building at the far left, which is still

Beyond is the Black Prince pub and then a garage, as usual built in a non-Tudor style with white render and flat roofs, influenced by the Modern Movement, to reflect the motor car's different image

He was beheaded by the London mob during the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, and his head is preserved in the vestry.

A lifeboat station was established at Polkerris in 1859, when the first boat was given by the Rashleighs of Menabilly.