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Here we see two horse-drawn narrow boats, the 'Linnet' and the 'Evelyn', belonging to George Garside, at the attractively sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east. It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

The ruins are seen from the village, above the Wicken Stream and Oliver Vye's Lane (bottom left).

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

Sir Edwin Maufe's dignified and apt cathedral was only completed in 1966, with much of the work dating from the period spanned by this book.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

On the west side, between the figures and the church tower, is the establishment of draper and milliner Ernest Benjamin Hobbs.

This view shows the prospect as revealed through the west door, seen in the previous photograph.

A little more than one mile to the west of Leith is the small fishing village of Newhaven. It was here that James IV founded a royal dockyard where he could build his navy.

This is the main route from Runton and west Norfolk into the centre of town.

This view looks west from the same viewpoint as F69010, past the half-timbered lodge built in 1900, towards Bishop's Park proper in the distance.

A double-decker open-topped bus travels north along the A24 on its way to Dorking and its terminus at West Croydon.

Boucher married a local woman in 1787, and moved with his library to Woodcote House, which the Northeys were putting out to rent.

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Diveting eastwards up Mill Street, our tour reaches St Cuthbert's Church, which served the east part of the town and was possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin.

This is a brash and cheerily post-modern early 1990s reworking of a crudely brutalist 1960s concrete shopping precinct that had swept away much of the west side of the Market Square.

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

South-west of Oxted, and on the course of a Roman Road across the Weald, the route turns left at Blindley Heath, a hamlet on former heathland in the south of Godstone parish.

The parish of Overton lies five miles south-west of Lancaster on the road to Sunderland Point.

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Fleetwood became England's principal fishing port on the west coast with a fleet to rival those of Hull and Grimsby. In this picture there are trawlers and Morecambe Bay prawners.

This is the west side of the market place; we have a better view of the church with its massive tower and noble parapets.

Gatehouse of Fleet is situated near the mouth of the Water of Fleet, a few miles north-west of Kirkcudbright.

Like many of the small resorts on the west coast of Wales, the largely Victorian seafront enjoys a very seasonal existence.