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The hunt assembling at the front of the Bugle pub, a former coaching inn. Note the sturdy porch, similar to that of its opposite neighbour the Dolphin Hotel.

A pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town. The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.

This is a much more recent view of this district of Worthing. Nearby there is a large old cemetery and chapel, with many graves of the wealthy.

On the left are two of the well-known hotels of the time, The Imperial and The Westward Ho! The elegant street lamps were a feature of this road. To w a r d s t h e P i e r

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

The Crown Hotel, formerly one of Lyndhurst's inns, was rebuilt in the Tudor style late in Victoria's reign. Lyndhurst is an ideal spot from which to explore the New Forest.

Bradford-on-Avon has changed little in the last century. There has been no by-pass, no rash of new developments.

The Trinity Weslyan Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Mawney Road and Linden Street, was built in 1888 and provided seating for 750 worshippers.

Nazeing's name means 'settlers on the projection of land'. It sits above the River Lea, and is a world of arable fields and market-garden glasshouses.

Tillingham has been owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's since at least 604.

A little to the north of the Thames and beyond Staines is the village of Stanwell.

Situated in Appleton, to the north of central Widnes, St Bede's is a reminder of the then recent change in the status of Britain's Roman Catholics.

Coping stones now surround the edge of the lake, and the arch of roses that spanned Picklefoot Spring at the point where it emerges has been constructed.

This fine view along Budleigh's strand looks towards the mouth of the River Otter and the bulbous cliff top of Otterton Ledge.

Originally owned by the Priory of St Bartholomew The Great, the estate was acquired in 1709 by James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos. Here he created one of London's great houses.

in recognition of contributions to National War Savings.

Tradition says that a lighthouse was built on the sands here in the early 1700s, but it collapsed into the sand. A ship carrying cotton bales was shipwrecked off Wirral, and the bales washed ashore.

Beneath the church is an ambulatory, which contains a collection of human remains.

Bilston had a lock-making industry of sorts in the 16th century but it remained fairly static; along with Pontypool, Bilston was an early centre for japanning—the copying of Japanese goods by English

An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.

In the late 1870s the Grammar School boys had lost a corner of their cricket field when a new area was being laid out for the weekly market.

And now to the greatest mystery: who were the people who raised the tumuli or burial mounds on Petersfield Heath during the Bronze Age some 1,000 years after the Stone Age?

Before the building of the Dartford tunnels and the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, the Tilbury ferry was an important means of crossing the Thames for motorists in this part of Essex.

In this early view of Matlock Bath, the crocketed spire of the parish church of the Holy Trinity is prominent in the right centre, with the River Derwent on the left.