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Ogmore lies two miles to the south-west of Bridgend.

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

When one looks at this inviting cavern, it is no wonder that after the copper mining itself finished West Mine became a magnet for explorers despite, or perhaps because of, the dangers of going underground

Moving south to the Cuckmere River valley, our tour reaches Upper Dicker, about two and a half miles west of Hailsham.

Robert FitzHamon chose to build his castle within the ruins of the old Roman fortress, raising a motte in the north-west corner.

Once Ludford Parva to the west and Ludford Magna to the east, the settlements are now merged.

The Buttertubs Pass leads dramatically down to this village, which is 9 miles west of Muker.

Lacock is a village that has been almost entirely preserved and protected from the ravages of modern development and commercial life.

Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort, just west of Conwy, clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay.

Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.

Built of flint and stone, it has a Perpendicular nave, chancel and west tower.

The cathedral looks massive, but is in fact relatively small; the central and two western towers are of no great height.

Much of it is in Perpendicular style (although Norman features remain), and there are later additions.

The picturesque growth of trees and ivy which has been allowed to flourish unchecked took its toll on the brick structure, and the church, probably designed by Nicholas Stone and consecrated by Archbishop

In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.

Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road.

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

Already an endangered occupation in 1965, fishing is now in terminal decline along the whole of the north-west coastline.

Erosion causes precipitous breaks, producing two miles of sheer cliffs from West Bay to Beach Road at Southover (right), where the boats and a cafe can be glimpsed.

This is a section of the Trent and Mersey Canal lying to the west of the village.

The creek on the River Wyre is now a modern marina, but once, like Skippool, it was an ancient port where ships from Russia called and oranges were unloaded from the West Indies.

This shows pre-war motoring at its peak, moving both ways up and down West Street, which was the A35 main road.

It is a quiet morning in this pleasant small town, situated on a gentle hill a few miles west of Sevenoaks.