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The road out takes you back to Frome.

Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times, owing much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.

Here we see Conigar Walk running down the bank of the River Usk.

On the right hand side is the Bank of Ireland, a building dating from Georgian times and once the home of the Irish Parliament.

How many of these men came back by the end of the following year? Frensham is known for its ponds and its common - now Frensham Country Park.

Kendal Grammar School sits alongside the banks of the River Kent.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

The Swan, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was originally known as the Yew Tree (after a nearby yew) but changed its name in the 18th century when it was a busy inn on the London-Brighton turnpike

However, mothers and children manage to find space and the boats form useful back-rests. The promenade is well used by walkers. Straw hats are popular for both men and women.

The maids seem to find the visitor ready for a chat, and the lad on the carriage looks back also.

The town is studded with fine brick and flint houses with steep pantiled roofs - on the right is the flamboyant brick and pebble Barclay's Bank.

The miller for many years was Mr Fred Banks.

The black-painted smock windmill, set back from the road, and the prominent Cricketers pub facing the local cricket pavilion, are both local landmarks.

On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's

On the right, the street still awaits the out-of-scale London and Counties bank, erected in 1892.

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

The building and its tower, distinguished by its tracery and four gables, date back to 1892. The first three shops on the right have all changed hands over the years.

Rothwell's history dates back to long before the Danish invasion of the Dark Ages. 4,000 years ago Bronze Age settlers came to this area, followed by the Romans.

It is market day, and the bystanders are waiting for transport to carry them back to their villages.

The old coaching inn known as the Rainbow was one of the many which had run back from Kendal's main streets since the Middle Ages.

The Harrow is the oldest public house in Wanborough, dating back to at least the 18th century.

The tiny hump-backed bridge at Ashness on the narrow road which leads up from the eastern shore of Derwent Water to the Norse hamlet of Watendlath has been seen on countless Lake District calendars,

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses in Hove with long gardens backing onto the beach.

The Victorian Methodist church beyond and Georgian Ilex Court beyond that remain, backed by orchards and separated by closes of new houses.