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It was long known to motorists on the A23 London to Brighton road for the major hold-ups at its traffic light junction with Star Lane, just out of view to the left.

The best part of Thames Ditton architecturally is north and west of this viewpoint, which shows the post office at the High Street's junction with Ashley Road.

The house at the far end of the road on the High Street is now the Birdcage. This is the route to the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Museum.

The long-time motto all along the front of the large road-side buildings was 'Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight', which is a quotation from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Many of the houses date from the 17th century, after the Civil War; trade in the town increased dramatically once the Keighley to Kendal turnpike road opened, making Settle a premier coaching route

During the Edwardian era, when this view was taken, Caversham was a popular address for affluent Reading residents.

The older houses are mostly along the High Street, Church Lane and Abingdon Road. Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it.

The grocer on the other side of the road is Whitemore's Stores. The tower of St Mary's Church is beyond the pedestrian crossing (centre).

The Central Hotel, next to Freeman, Hardy & Willis on the corner, is popular with students, but the young man walking down the road would now be unwise to try this today!

The school, initially installed at Whitehall on Malden Road in the year of the Great Plague of 1665, moved to this site (now occupied by Tabor Court alongside the present by-pass) in 1719.

This view looks along the High Street, with Hardwick Road to the left.

This is a quiet moment, on what in pre-bypass days was one of the busiest roads in Dorset, apart from the postman calling at No 12 (right).

Beeson and Sons on the left occupy premises built in 1863 when Talbot Road was laid out. On the right, all the red brick cottages went about 1900 to be replaced by the buildings seen in view 49245.

This area was called Crouche in 1400; the name derives from Old English 'cruc' or cross, but does this mean cross-roads or near to the cross?

Sadler Street was subject to an enhancement scheme in 2001, and much of the asphalt road has been replaced by more picturesque material.

This Snowdonian village on the Holyhead Road (A5) lies at the mouth of the pass of Nant Ffrancon, beneath the famous Penrhyn slate quarries, once the largest in the world and still producing slate today

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

This Severn landmark was dismantled in 1967, but a number of the spans were shipped intact to Chile, where they are in use today as a road bridge.

In the churchyard stands the grave of Henry Boswell, a gypsy king, who boasted that he lived through the reign of three Georges and that he knew every road in the land.

The pier now has a road-train purely for the purpose of transporting those who might find the full length a little taxing.

We are looking west towards Station Road and the church - the delicate spire was added to the tower in 1712. The Stowmarket Co-op on the left has been rebuilt.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

The tour has to reach Bury by road, but until the 1950s you could get from Amberley to Bury by ferry. The wharf was restored in 1997 with concrete steps.

A small row of sandstone cottages were built at the time of the birth of the railway in Salthouse Road; these cottages still stand today, and represent some of the earliest residencies built in the emerging