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A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long

This view, though, is of the south end, which has fared less well: typical suburban mock-Tudor shopping parades proliferate both on the left and out of view to the right and behind the camera

Old Harry Rocks (far left) are to the south-east.

The stone reredos dates from 1879; its design is based on the description of the pre-Reformation reredos by Roger Martin of Melford Place, whose brass is in the south chapel.

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

It was built around 1150 on the site of a Saxon church, and the south porch was added a decade later. Ancient animal symbols festoon the porch - they represent the four evangelists.

This, at 617 feet above sea level, is the highest point on the south coast.

That Meryl Streep moment, as it became after 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' had been filmed here in 1980, with the Outer Breakwater of the Cobb awash in a bursting south-westerly wave.

The Cross and the Carew Arms 1929 Further south, Crowcombe is the largest village on the western flanks of the Quantocks, and once was a small market town.

It was opened to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee but when the new church was consecrated in South Parade the old building found use as the public library, until the new Sutton Coldfield

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

South of Ollerton is Rufford Country Park, run by the County Council.

Some 24 square miles of the 4,000 acres that constitute the Water Park are fully established at South Cerney, offering water sports, angling and sailing within a holiday and recreational centre

There are two prominent buildings of quality in the village, firstly the 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and Langham Old Hall with its date stone of 1665 built into the south

Looking South This view of the Town Hall shows the main entrance at the centre.

We are looking south along West Kirby's busy Promenade, with the marine lake to the right.

Further along the south side of the street (left of centre) is the Old Inn. West Court is behind the hand-cart.

Ironically, when finally built in the 1980s the relief road, St Mary's Way, demolished the south part of market-place, and the town hall need not have been demolished.

The porch of the doorway on the south wall was removed about this time.

On the south side, whilst a touring charabanc waits for its customers outside the Royal Oak public house, a handcart makes a delivery to Fraser`s, piano sellers and household outfitters.

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Farley Green is situated towards the south end of Albury parish, and its fields are carved out of the surrounding greensand woods.