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This is another picturesque Hampshire village, home to a good selection of perfect whitewashed thatched cottages.

There is another village in Bisley - that of the clubhouses and mobile homes found at the National Rifle Association's ranges.

Built close to both the railway station and beach, it quickly became a successful family hotel.

Both Southampton and Eastleigh laid claim to its title; the thorny problem was eventually and diplomatically settled by calling it Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport.

Lee on the Solent grew as a late Victorian development.

The two shops on the left were both Morley's, one a clockmaker's, the other an ironmonger's. The tree is at the east end of the churchyard.

After Neville was killed in battle, another Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, lived here before becoming King Richard III.

A new and bigger church was built on another site (see page 48).

It became yet another of Northamptonshire's boot and shoe manufacturing towns in the later 19th century and was greatly enlarged, with streets of Victorian terrace housing.

The Georgian font is from another church. Hanging inside are paper Virgins' Crowns, each marking a past village spinster or bachelor - the most recent was put up in 1973.

Another centre for socialising is the pub – the building with the white gable end beyond the garage.

Most of the shops on the right have been demolished or modernised, and the double tram track (laid in 1913) is long gone.

Frogmore Street begins near the bank on the right, site of the medieval north gate. The pedestrians walking towards the camera are heading for the High Street and, no doubt, the market.

The Old Plough was opposite but closed in 1948, the licence being transferred to the 'new' Plough.

The hotel later provided another service for travellers – BP petrol from the three tall cylinders by the door (left). The building looks the same today, but it has fewer chimneys.

The photograph shows the alterations that were made to the hall by Colonel Harding: the north wing (right) was rebuilt with a stair turret, and the original stair turret on the south side was raised by

Inside are several striking memorials; one is to pupils of the former public school next door who were killed in the World Wars, while another commemorates all those who contributed to the building

On 5 September 1890, 'Lynx' was rammed by the tanker 'Oevelgonne', which did not stop - she was subsequently arrested on a visit to Falmouth.

Both of them managed to preserve their roodloft, unlike most of Hampshire's churches, which lost them during the Reformation. The church has a bell turret and two windows containing Tudor glass.

The advent of parcel post in 1883, and the right of delivery to every household introduced in 1897, would have increased both the weight of the postmans sack and the length of his round.

Clothes are drying sluggishly behind the figures on the right-hand jetty. Just eleven years later the railway came to Whitby, altering trading patterns completely.

Two more were built after one another; the second was washed away by floods.

In 1908 another historian recorded that 'many modern red-brick cottages are now in process of building to supply the needs of the men who are employed in the Eastleigh Railway Works'.

Towyn (or Tywyn) means both 'an extent of land' and 'a thing that shines', a good description of the sand and marsh around the town.