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Nestling just under the hills surrounding the North York Moors is the old settlement of Ampleforth, built around the early abbey of St Lawrence.

This village is at the very heart of so called 'witch country'.

In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock.

In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock.

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.

Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

This pleasant market town lies just inland from the chalets and caravans of the 'honky-tonk' north coast between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle. The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

A fine view of the Welsh mountains can be had from the 14th-century spire set on a tower. Richard Massock's tomb is here – he was a Royalist captured at the Battle of Aughton Common.

The broach spire of the church with its lancet windows and its tower were added to the original structure in 1870.

East of Chiddingfold the lanes wind to Alfold, which lies close to the Sussex border.

As can be seen from the two television aerials sprouting above the rooftop on the right, modern innovations in home entertainment were already making their presence felt in the early sixties.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

This sizeable village, close by Liskeard, sprawls along a hill-top surrounded by high moorland. All around are the ruins of engine houses and copper mines.

Looking west past the Memorial Gardens, the white building on the far hill, just to the left of the church tower, is Shardeloes, the Georgian mansion of the lords of the manor.

Viewed from the Corn Exchange on Market Hill, Luton's main street on a summer's day just before the turn of the 19th century gives little indication of the importance of this thoroughfare.

The Peterville Inn, which has since acquired a wide porch, stands by the junction with Quay Road leading to Trevaunance Cove to the right of the camera.

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north-west corner of the Town Hall.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.