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This view depicts the bustle in West Steet, with children and cycles, and a flock of sheep being driven uphill (left of centre). Market stalls for animals can be seen between the trees.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

This is a typical Fifties scene with the then familiar railway trucks and a car.

On the right is that ubiquitous feature of west country beaches, the lime kiln.

Forest Row, recorded in the early 14th century, lies three miles south-west of East Grinstead on the verge of Ashdown Forest.

The village of Lower Penn was once owned by Lady Godiva, and was formerly known as Nether Penn.

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Despite its name, this is the main road into Ellesmere from the west, in other words from Wales.

It was then that Roger Bigod III built the town wall, which was some 1200 yds in length and had a number of semi-circular towers.

A new visitor centre now marks the entrance to Conisbrough Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in the country.

In the 1190s Rye joined the Cinque Ports federation, a group of Kent and Sussex ports that provided ships for the King's navy in return for enormous privileges.

View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.

The west-bound traffic, overtaking a parked vehicle and cyclist, is rather hogging the middle of the road.

Sited on the north west angle of the Church of St Mary de Castro, and opposite the Norman Great Hall, the whole ambience stirs feelings of regret that just a little more of early Leicester

West of Sunbury and on the former Middlesex bank of the Thames is Chertsey Lock, near Chertsey Bridge, an austere seven-arch stone bridge of the 1780s by James Paine.

On the west bank of the Taw, this view shows the old road (left), and new one (right). The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

With their barrack buildings in the background, and eight tents pitched alongside the parade ground, the officers and men of the Royal West Surrey regiment march off parade.

In the foreground is the railway, and further back stands the church of St Mary the Virgin. The Grosvenor Hotel on the right has now gone, and the building houses shops.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

The medieval church, with its plain west tower and stumpy shingled broach spire, was extensively restored, not entirely successfully, in the 1850s by William Slater for the dynamic Reverend Arthur Eden

West of the village centre is Wadhurst Castle.

To the west of Farley Heath and Blackheath, the hamlet of Blackheath grew up in Victorian times.

Further west along the A30, Chard is a market town laid out in 1234 by Bishop Jocelyn of Wells.

The Queen Anne house, built in 1702 and presented to the National Trust in 1943, became known as Angel Corner in 1956.