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The boat lying on the beach in the fore ground, in Hugh Town harbour, is vaguely reminiscent of an ex-ships' lifeboat, and shows the rugged clinker-built construction of this type of craft.

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Samuel Pepys studied here between 1650 and 1653, and on his death in 1703 his library came here, including the original manuscript volumes of his famous diaries.

Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton. The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.

Stone from the same quarry was used in the construction of the seafront at Scarborough.

It was built as the town's Corn Exchange in 1849, but was felt to be too small by the 1870s, when a new grander one was built on the north side of St Paul's Square (seen in the second view

The photographer is looking east from the top of High Street, where there is now a roundabout, with the churchyard walls and lime trees on the left. The wall and railings have now gone.

In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock.

In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock.

This shows a piece of exotica on the lane to Lower Hartwell.

While the old town up the hill had its origins in the 8th century, the Bexhill everyone knows grew up from the 1880s by the sea as a resort on Earl De La Warr's estate.

Farmers' wives and country women have been up since dawn packing their baskets with jars of home-made jams and marmalades for this sizeable market.

It was a vital part of the Grand Cross network that linked the rivers Trent, Severn, Thames and Mersey. The church of St Mary and All Saints looks delightful; it is built from local red sandstone.

The streets of London used to be thronged with beggars, confidence tricksters and street traders. Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house.

The streets of London used to be thronged with beggars, confidence tricksters and street traders. Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house.

This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north-west corner of Powys, so distant that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and just ten miles from the sea.

Much of this corner of the Market Place has changed since this photograph was taken.

A couple of miles north-east of Ticehurst, Flimwell is a small village bisected by the London to Hastings road, now the A21, which crosses the foreground of this view.

The 13th-century church with its 15th-century tower stands on the north side of the square.

The view looks westwards from the foothills of Ridge Cliff to Seatown hamlet (centre left) and Mill House and Mill Lane (lower right), which was concrete-covered in the Second World War to enable the large-scale

Two miles south-west of Michelham Priory, further downstream along the Cuckmere River, we reach Arlington, another scattered village of farmsteads bisected by the meandering river.

The medieval parish church, Ashtead Park house and its landscaped park, now part of the City of London Freemen's School, are south of this main through road, the A24 London to Worthing road.

Moving east towards Leith Hill, but still south of the woodland that covers the greensand hills, the tour reaches Forest Green, a hamlet scattered around an extensive green.

The Town of Kendal Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent— was founded on the wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.