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We are looking down the Chatteris road, where very little has changed in the past 40 years.

Of all the varied attractions of the Peak District, this one is up towards the top of the list.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring. It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring. It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.

The County Council had been buying parcels of land in this area since the 1930s, in an attempt to preserve the native trees. Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.

This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. Opposite is Ixworth Dairy, with a Gothic shop front.

Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was. The rails have been removed, and a pleasant cycle track has been installed.

Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

In the 1950s, Great British holidays enjoyed a revival. The pre-Beeching Act railways meant that people were able to visit a vast array of holiday destinations.

The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.

View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge. It was the final station along the scenic route from Teesside to Whitby.

With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'

The 188 acres of Healey Dell became a Nature Reserve in 1976. Oak, birch and beech trees predominate and there are over 400 species of flora and over 60 species of birds.

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

Pictured here is the junction of London Road (the A31) and Church Lane. The house on the corner, known as The Beeches, was advertised for auction in 1920.

Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.

The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham

Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.

Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.