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The tower contains a bell cast in the local bell foundries in 1665; the location of these foundries is commemorated in the name Bell Banks Road, a road to the south that runs from Market Street to

In the 1960s, icy conditions made the road dangerous to motors, and in August 1963 the road was covered over and a culvert was built.

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

But then the turnpike road was built, and Gayle lost its eminence.

Here we look in envy at this quiet road - these days it is hard to see the tarmac. Back in the 1920s, people had a good choice of public transport.

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

Whenever a problem existed they would often pool their resources, with whole families working together to provide such things as footpaths or stepping-stones on the unmade roads.

Hardly a stone's throw away from Kingsbury Road is Slough Lane and its environs, where Ernest G Trobridge's timber and thatch houses are grouped most picturesquely.

It stands at the junction of two Roman roads, the Ackling Dyke running from Dorchester to Old Sarum, and the Bath to Poole road, although there is still doubt that the latter was ever completed.

Note the safe walkways above the road. Today the village remains unspoiled, despite substantial road development nearby.

Manor Road with its well-appointed suburban villas offered the Victorian and Edwardian idyll, an elegant and fashionable domicile for the early London commuter.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This quiet road has now been widened, and there is little sign of the water-filled ditch. However, the property on the left and the barn projecting towards the road remain unchanged.

Beyond him, the sign jutting into the road is for Taylor Inman, plumber and painter.

Across Poole Road, the low railing offered easy access to the fields of the Dean's Court Estate. The pub dates back at least to the 18th century, and parts of the building are even older.

Behind the lychgate at the end of Manor Road rises the flint and stone tower of Holy Trinity parish church.

By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school. Note the round-arched windows and the ornamental bargeboards that are characteristic of the 1860s and early 1870s.

The fact that it was possible to park on the side of the road without problem makes this photograph one to be treasured.

The road to the left leads to the pub, the school, the village hall and the church, and the road to the right to Sedgebrook and the A52 to Nottingham.

We are looking along Bridge Road towards Maidenhead. There is now a very busy roundabout at the junction with Ray Mead Road, which leads to Cookham.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

The cafe is not overburdened with custom, and the road to the zoo, about two miles further on, awaits a surge of traffic, as does the Curzon Arms, at the road junction.

The central feature here - the stone rotunda standing at Springfield Road corner - had previously marked the conduit-head in Tindal Square.

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).