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Further west, the High Street meets Abingdon Road (right) and Steventon Road (left) in a small green.

The Old Deanery on the north side of the Green is a large 15th-century building with an inner courtyard. In 1497 Henry VII stayed here after the Perkin Warbeck uprising.

If you do it properly, both forward motion and steering is provided by the pole.

Moving west from Godalming, the route passes through Elstead, a village with a medieval bridge over the River Wey and this triangular village green.

This is the north end of North Street with the Masonic Lodge off to the left. The war memorial was dedicated in October 1921.

The coast here, turning to the south, forms a wide, open bay. The esplanade extends for about a mile, and is lined with elegant houses and defended by a substantial sea-wall.

Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.

This view looks north along Woodcote Road towards the railway bridge. The station is on the left, but is concealed by the distant shops.

Although they are outside the City of Nottingham's boundaries, Carlton and Gedling are really its eastern suburbs.

The 450-acre Finningley Park Estate was sold in 1935, and within a year a new RAF airstrip was built on its flat land.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

This pastoral scene is on the Green in High Ackworth. To the left is the church of St Cuthbert, built in 1582 on the site of a Saxon chapel from AD 875.

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul shows above the low rise houses which bound The Green; it was heavily 'restored' in 1872 by F W Ordish.

If you do it properly, both forward motion and steering is provided by the pole.

By the time the castle was finished in around 1200, Richmond had grown in size; a market has been held here since 1155.

On the west side of the green area called the Croft, backing on to the river, are the workhouse and St Gregory's off to the left.

Back to the west of Blindley Heath the route reaches Outwood, a hamlet on the edge of heath and woodland, some of it owned by the National Trust.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

The old village of Ealing was south of the Broadway, with the parish church beyond Ealing Green.

The last view in this chapter and in the book looks from the large village green across the pond to housing typical of the development of Pirbright.

Overlooked by the slopes of Box Hill and the sweep of the North Downs, this delightful village acquired its name from the badgers whose setts were by the River Mole.

Through the 1662 legacy of John Bentley, a free school was founded on The Green. A

Franklin's Stores looks busy - it is shaded from the bright sunshine. There is a little shade under the tree for those with time to contemplate life's (then) gentle flow.

We are looking north-east from the green in front of The Abbey's large grounds; this view is remarkably unchanged since 1890.