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Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.

The pointed roof on the other bank belongs to St Laurence's Church, Rowhedge, built in 1838 as a pastiche of York Minster's chapterhouse.

William Shearburn of Dorking carried out the building work at a cost of £2,253 - a tidy sum back then, and all raised by public subscription.

The village church is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and parts of it date back to the 13th century. It actually stands inside the grounds of Clandon Park.

We are looking back up Crown Hill, with the sign of the Crown on the left.

MOAT BANK c1960. Longdon's church, seen here behind the trees, has a tower and spire dating from the 14th century.

Here, the old core of the village, clustered around St Martin's parish church, backed by Belle Isle and Claiffe Heights, is being admired by three elegantly dressed ladies.

On the left is the District Bank. Next door is Hodgson, fruiterer and florist. By the Farmers Arms is G H Mackereth, seedsmen, also selling manure.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

Goods were carried on river barges between the busy seaport of Bridgwater and wharves here, and one of the entrepreneurs, George Stuckley, also ran a successful bank, which remained independent until

Warton is a beautiful and thriving village, with a history going back to prehistoric times.

It was sacrificed in a road-widening scheme, and replaced by the Fountain public house, which was set back in line with the ancient row of almshouses we see here on the left.

The half-timbered facade of Martin's Bank can be seen in the distance.

Warston Pictures proudly presents 'My Six Convicts' at its Cameo Cinema on the corner of Springfield Street, opposite Bank House (right.)

The town, once an important centre for the woollen trade, has many fine golden Cotswold stone buildings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when many affluent wool merchants made their home here

North Street leads out of the town in the direction of Cowdray Park, with which the town is most closely associated.

The Red Lion Hotel in the charming village of Armathwaite occupies a beautiful position at the foot of a tree-clad bank above the River Eden.

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and

Remains of a Roman villa were found during the building of the Hotel, which takes Eastbourne's origins back much further.

To the right the Lower Promenade, closer to beach level, is separated by a sloping bank of more informal shrubs.

This view looks from the north bank of the Avon, near the toll bridge. The mill buildings are still in use (compare this view with the last one).

Back uphill, past Marlborough Buildings, we reach St James Square, altogether more conventional.

Beyond the low stone wall along the left side of the road the land drops to the bank of the River Avon.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.