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Thomas Hardy used the Manor at Wool as the setting for the disastrous honeymoon of Tess and Angel Clare in his novel 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'.

Having completed our tour of the central part of the city, this chapter provides an itinerary taking in the best of the great terraces, squares and crescents that were developed to its north.

Cliff lifts became a popular solution to the problems of beach access in the later years of the Victorian period, and were used at a number of seaside resorts.

Mothers and daughters take advantage of the excellent views of the Severn afforded them from the churchyard of St Peter's.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

This view looks towards the Royal Exchange and St Mary's Gate. This was one of the principal cab ranks in Manchester, and licensing, fares and conditions were regulated by the local authority.

Sulby not only gives its name to the island's longest river but also to (probably) its tallest inhabitant.

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

Our earliest view of Junction station. A carriage shed is to the left. The shaded area beyond the road will become the Ilfracombe railway. Several sailing vessels stand at Barnstaple Quay.

Photographed in the year it was built, this church had seating for 800 people, and a commodious schoolroom at the back.

The sign of the Unicorn inn on the left has a finely- carved sundial nearby, also with a unicorn below.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

Here we see Nunney at the north-east end. The house in the foreground, built in 1820, was the church school house until 1896, when it became known as the Church Rooms.

A girl leans idly against a wall beside a creeper-covered cottage, a scene that has not greatly changed in the seventy years that have passed since the photograph was taken.

This view is taken from the east, with the Tudor-style chimneys in the distance and the tall two-gabled building on the right, W H Smith, in a simple Jacobean style dating from the 1920s.

By the Victorian drinking fountain at the entrance to Botley station lies a memorial tablet which reads: 'this stone is erected to perpetuate a most cruel murder committed on the body of Thomas Webb,

Hampshire's only commercial airport was once at the centre of a major controversy.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

The High Street looks quiet here; it usually seems much busier today. But a lot of that is just traffic passing through.

The village sits at the confluence of a number of ancient routes, the most important of which is the Fosse Way.

Notice how the limestone roof slates are smaller at the ridge, becoming larger as they descend towards the eaves of this fine old house.

A little out of shot is the church of St Mary, which has an unusual gravestone in memory of Phillis Humphreys, who died at the age of 58 in 1763.

Later known as the Lancaster Moor Hospital, it opened on 28 July 1816. At first there were only 60 'inmates', but by 1836 the asylum had been extended and could accommodate 406 patients.

On the hillside, ¾ mile east of Towneley is this splendid house. Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.