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A line of genteel houses is now an indifferent row of shops.

The lych gate was built in 1905 and paid for by Edward Huth in memory of his parents, who moved to Wykehurst House in the 1860s.

The signpost makes a central focal point on the flat-topped ridge looking towards the solid tower of Cane Hill Hospital on the skyline.

Leez Priory was a house of Austin canons, founded in the 12th century. After the Dissolution it fell to Lord Rich, who built a new mansion on the site in 1536.

This is the rear of Coram Court – we are looking south-westwards from its grounds. It became St Michael's College in 1887, with the Rev Arthur R Sharpe as headmaster.

Mayburgh Henge is one of a group of three prehistoric monuments near Eamont Bridge.

This Norman building of about 1170 is a remarkable survival of a medieval trade guild's hall and chambers and is now the base of the Lincoln Civic Trust.

The old Royal was demolished in the 1960s; it thrives today as a much smaller hotel called the Humber Royal, part of the Forte hotel chain.

Near the centre of the village is the base of an ancient cross, consisting of the lower part of the shaft and elevated on three steps. On the sides are blank shields.

Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers. The thick reed beds obscure the exact edge of the land.

In the distance we get some idea of the development of this end of the town.

Before the development of the Tudor-style half-timbered buildings on the north side of the street, the view from the top of the Eastgate looking towards the Cross was much less impressive.

This busy shopping street has buildings of human scale of the 1920s and 30s, with a prominent well-designed Midland Bank sign now replaced by the anonymous HSBC of the Eastern Banking Empire.

Winsford High Street boasted an outlet of the Zan chain of ironmongers.

The picturesque village of Burwash was once a centre of the Wealden iron industry. Nearby stands Batemans, a 17th-century iron-master's house, the home of Rudyard Kipling for many years.

The Cathedral was once the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter. Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

The first brothers of the establishment came directly from Normandy. The remains to be seen today actually date from the abbey's rebuilding in the course of the 13th to the 15th centuries.

The roundabout is situated at the crossing of the Icknield Way (the A505) and the A10.

A classic west Dorset view, showing Seatown and Golden Cap which, at 618 feet above sea level, is the highest cliff on the South Coast of England.

Sir Roger Fiennes' ancestor, Sir John, had married the heiress Maud de Monceux in 1320, the last of the family that had held the manor since the 12th century and had given the village the second

Three members of the family are buried in this chapel in three magnificent alabaster tombs. In the centre is the tomb of Sir William ap Thomas and his wife Gwladys.

A first venture into council housing supplied 180 houses on the Ebbisham Road estate at the edge of the Common.

The building to the right of Beecroft's was the Tudor house of the Earl of Mansfield. All these buildings were pulled down to make way for the new Council House in the 1920s.

Stand in the corner of the churchyard and you can see that this view of All Saints' Church has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.