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Mills crowd in towards the town centre, following the course of the river Roach and its tributary the Spodden. Textile mills reached their peak of prosperity at this time.

The original lower height of the chancel roof can easily be seen, but otherwise, the interior is very similar to today`s church.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

The churchyard to the west of the church is framed on three sides by remarkable and complete sets of almshouses.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green.This stretch of road has a history all of its own. In 1826 J C Macadam laid a new road surface here as a trial.

Newent is best enjoyed on foot. With such an assortment of architectural styles in the town centre, there is always a building or detail to please the eye.

Summertime flash floods are a fact of life at Upwey, where the River Wey flows southwards beside Church Street to Westbrook Farm and the Manor House.

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John`s Street.

Moreton Hall, Whalley lies just over the boundary from Great Harwood at the other side of the valley of the Calder.

Shortly before this photograph was taken, the Town Council approved an expenditure of £850 to be paid to Frederick Pomeroy RA for the design and execution of a statue of the Lord Protector

The village nestles at the foot of Ingleborough, one of the famous Three Peaks, but it was the waterfalls walk that brought town dwellers to the area.

The church of St John the Baptist stands virtually on the other side of Red Lion Square from All Saints'.

Eastbourne owes its development to the 7th Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront

The striped blinds in the distance belong to Booths, ironmonger and draper.

It is difficult to imagine this peaceful river scene as it was only twenty years previously. Then, it was a bustling port with barges moored two or three deep unloading timber and barley.

The picturesque growth of trees and ivy which has been allowed to flourish unchecked took its toll on the brick structure, and the church, probably designed by Nicholas Stone and consecrated by Archbishop

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

This a row of typical seaside hotels and boarding houses, and it still looks the same.

Few people think of Tarleton as a port, but in the 15th century ships from here sailed to small ports along the Lancashire coast and even to Europe.

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down. The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.

The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar. Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important diary spanning eleven years of his life.

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

In this view of the harbour we are looking towards the town clustered on the hillside.

It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.