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The tiny hamlet of Leigh lies on the east bank of the River Severn, perched on land just high enough to raise it from the floodplain, a few miles north-west of Cheltenham.

Here we see the river bridges and Nag's Head island, which separates the main river on the right and the back water on its left.

On the south side of this view is the London House store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover and Son. Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop(centre).

With five roads feeding into it, this famous junction (close to the access to the Queensway Tunnel under the River Mersey) is one of the busiest in the region.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

This photograph shows the shops on the other side of the street from E167019. On the comer (right) we have Delbridges. The nearest building on the right was originally Lloyds Bank.

This view is from the same spot as our last photograph, but roughly ten years later. The narrow road has gone, widened in the name of progress.

Here we see the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and

This is the centre of Milford, with the road to Keyhaven and the coast on the right by the Midland Bank.

Near the northern end of Pitchcroft, a ferry crossed the Severn to a watermen's inn and a small quay, originally built to serve villages to the west, such as Martley.

This pond with its island is a most attractive feature in the outer part of the town. While it is somewhat municipalised nowadays, it is very ancient.

This town can be confusing for the visitor, as not only has it two rivers, but also two High Streets.

Curiously, as the Skindles Hotel expanded, it was cut in two by Mill Lane (which led to Taplow Mills).

At the crossroads of Market Place and Potter's Street stands the neo-classical Corn Exchange, designed by Lewis Vulliamy, whose original frontage had a grand entrance dominated by a statue of the harvest

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

The village of Hampton is quite compact and largely ignored by those rushing through in their cars.

At the east side of the market place was the entrance to Abingdon Abbey.

On the left is Barclays Bank, next to the Rose and Crown, which was gutted by fire in 1969.

This view shows the Hammersmith bank's suspension tower and the 'chains' in close detail.

The town is named after the grange, or storage place for grain, belonging to the monks of Cartmel Priory.

This classic view of England's largest lake was taken from the south end of Loughrigg. Ambleside town is round the corner to the left.

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

The High Street turns north, and it and the town end abruptly at the River Great Ouse, which flows through meadows liable to flooding.