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Budleigh Salterton stands to the west of the silted estuary of the River Otter. Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them.

Beyond Hounslow, the Great West Road divided into the two coaching routes leading to Bath and Exeter.

This view of the parish church of St Nicolas is from the corner of Bartholomew Street and West Mills.

This road up from the beach was first started at the time that George Hudson bought the West Cliff Estate in the 1850s, and it got the name from the strategic pass important in the Afghan wars, which

On the west side of the High Street stands the impressive frontage of Worcester's Guildhall.

Heacham has the distinctive flat beach of this part of the West Norfolk coast.

Little Sutton lies just north-west of Ellesmere Port, and in recent years, along with Great Sutton, it has more or less coalesced with it.

There is a stone carving of the Last Judgement above the west door. The war memorial pillar has a floral design, and commemorates those lost in the two World Wars.

Immediately north-east of the Hall is St Peter's Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out here and

The splendid golf course was also part of Herbert Raphael's grand plan for Gidea Park Garden Suburb, providing it with a green and pleasant boundary to the east just as Raphael Park did to the west

The monument stands in the centre of an area known as the Sanctuary by the west door of the abbey and on the site of the abbey gateway.

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

A little more than one mile to the west of Leith is the small fishing village of Newhaven. It was here that James IV founded a royal dockyard where he could build his navy.

Belvoir Castle is picturesquely situated some six miles to the west of Grantham, at the foot of a narrow spur jutting up between Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Further down are Woolworth's and Dewhurst Butchers.

West Bromwich boasts a remarkable survivor, Oak House, a magnificent 16th-century manor house. By 1894 it had fallen into disrepair.

Today Dudley Zoo, and zoos in general, have moved away from keeping large or exotic animals, which can be seen more in wildlife parks such as the West Midlands Safari Park near Bewdley.

West Bay is the small port of the neighbouring town of Bridport.The River Brit, which gives the larger town its name, is held back by a series of sluices and released at low tide.

A mile or two to the west of Northampton, the village of Duston is steeped in history.

The grid-like pattern of the streets west of Laindon High Road preserves the layout of some of the early plotland estates.

Here in the Market Place a number of local people and tradesmen are curiously watching the cameraman's antics in the middle of the street.

During the Restoration the palace reverted to the church, and the great hall was rebuilt. Later, stables and another extension on the west side were added.

It is in the Early English style, with a chancel and nave, and a small west tower with a pointed spire containing one bell.

His last expedition found the North- West Passage around the north of Canada, but Franklin and his crews died in 1847 when his ships, 'Erebus' and 'Terror', were trapped in the Arctic ice.