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This Hampshire village has many trees, windy roads, and the occasional hill. Time has treated this peaceful area well. There are some fine cottages here, and no new housing.

Horsley is approached from the north by the main road from Nailsworth, middle right, and by a steep lane leading from the attractive hamlet of Washpool, bottom right, where the remains

Here again we see a road that is now overhung with mature trees and was formerly clear of undergrowth.

The parish church often stood just a road's width from the limit of the rising waters.

The 16th-century Chantry in Hadham Road was built on the site of the original priest's house on lands granted under the will of Baldwyn Victor.

East of the town, on the Louth Road, is Lincolnshire's only racecourse, since Lincoln's closed some years ago.

We can see tram lines in the road sweeping round from left to right. Newport's electric tramway was opened in 1903, but it was replaced in 1937 by motorised bus services.

This is the main road through what was once the home of the Welsh iron industry.

Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.

From Lansdown Road turn left into Camden Crescent, an ambitious project begun in 1788 on the slopes of Beacon Hill, which gave splendid views eastwards.

A hundred years before this picture was taken it would have been less desirable, with the nearest passable road a mile away and the best route from one country house to another across the fields.

The road journey from Saltash today takes about an hour and a half.

This is a classic view of the market town of Bakewell, seen from the steeply climbing Station Road.

This quiet road is built over an earlier byway bordering the extensive area of common land that was enclosed, drained and extensively farmed from the 17th century.

Note the old black and white road sign on the left. The Broadway News agency is now part of the Dillons chain.

St Aidan`s has its origins in a hall in Woodcote Grove Road but moved to the above site in 1931.

The trees have gone, sad to say, and the road is framed with yellow lines telling us where we can (and more often cannot) park.

A little further up the road is Stanford Court, once the home of the Winnington family.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

Owing to 20th century development, as seen here in Station Road, Stoke D'Abernon has merged into Cobham. However, the village does have the county's oldest church.

purchased the neighbouring premises of Dingley's, drapers, outfitters, milliners and hosiers, and soon the new building had been redesigned and built as we see it today, set back from the road

This peaceful unmetalled street is now the busy A329; the B4009 Newbury road emerges between the Bull at Streatley public house on the left and the Georgian Elm House just beyond.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town.