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The statue of Thomas Gainsborough, the artist, was erected in front of the tower in 1913. On the left is the Bank of 1903, with columns between the windows and circular fanlights.

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.

The four-storey Sundial Cottage (left), and Library Cottage next door are shown before the building of the Bay Private Hotel.

Circling Frome, we head north to the Mells Stream valley and Mells village, the home of the Horners, the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner's family.

According to tradition, the church of St Michael and All Angels is said to stand on the site of a 7th-century wooden chapel dedicated to St Chad.

A mile or two outside the village sits Harvington Hall. It is a wonderfully evocative Tudor mansion surrounded by a moat, which we see here.

The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

Compare this view of the nave to the 1924 photograph. Above the altar we can see a decorated screen, which has long been removed.

This view shows the junction of Boar Lane and Briggate, looking towards the Corn Exchange.

The word 'fold' means an enclosure of land for animals, and 'Chadynge`s fold' may well date back to the Saxon period.

While West Clandon with its railway station definitely has the air of a commuter village, East Clandon, facing the slope of the North Downs and surrounded by fields, still has a rural feel

The parish church of St Mary’s was formerly the Priory. There has been a Roman basilica, a Saxon shrine and a Norman church on this site, long before the present church was built.

Churchgate Street lay on the main route from London to Newmarket, Cambridge, Norwich and the North.

When the Cardigan estate at Kirkstall and Headingley was sold at auction in 1889, a group of businessmen with an enthusiasm for sports purchased Lot 17A.

The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes

An interesting collection of old cars can be seen along the left-hand side of the road next to the tea rooms on the main street of this pleasant village.

We are just north-west of Horsham. The church of St Margaret's has a neatly clipped yew tunnel at the churchyard entrance. Inside is an elaborate monument to the memory of John Caryll, an ironmaster.

The central thoroughfare of the New Town of Hemel Hempstead, in the prosperous mid-sixties when we'd reputedly 'never had it so good'.

When the Cardigan estate at Kirkstall and Headingley was sold at auction in 1889, a group of businessmen with an enthusiasm for sports purchased Lot 17A.

This long row of jettied timber-framed buildings (now known as Castlebridge Cottages) is unusual in a rural setting. The central bay was destroyed at some time and has been rebuilt.

The parish church of St Mary's was formerly the Priory. There has been a Roman basilica, a Saxon shrine and a Norman church on this site, long before the present church was built.

The bay marks the natural harbour of this spot.

The statue is of the fourth Marquis of Downshire, the 11th descendant of the Hills of Hillsborough.