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The focus of Cutcombe is now Wheddon Cross. Here in the old part of the village were once shops, a school and a pub. A Victorian post box sits in the wall on the right, out of view.

The name of this village derives from 'dyke gate', referring to the control of water through sluices.

Mothers and daughters take advantage of the excellent views of the Severn afforded them from the churchyard of St Peter's.

The Victorian village school in the small village of Huttons Ambo, on the River Derwent, served the twin villages of High and Low Hutton for many years.

Godred Crovan created the 'House of Keys', and in his day it included representatives from the Hebrides, but since 1266 it has been comprised solely of Manxmen.

Here we see the upper reaches of the Basingstoke Canal in Hampshire. The surface weed indicates a lack of commercial use. Note the telegraph poles on the left, once a regular sight alongside canals.

The road to London passes through The Green, which was preserved by the 1810 Act of Parliament that enclosed the rest of the former common land of the parish for agriculture.

In 1978 the section of the pier between the concert hall at the end, from which this view was taken, was destroyed in storms.

Tattershall and Coningsby lie just south of the last slopes of the Wolds, with the flat Fens stretching away to the south.

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

Chelmsford has been the county town of Essex since at least the 13th century. Here we see the busy High Street in the days long before it was pedestrianised.

Besides a devastating fire, the original village of Cockerham also experienced flooding from the River Cocker, another reason to move to higher ground.

In 1906, Fletcher Dodd began to provide holidays for groups of socialists from the East End of London in the grounds of his house on Ormesby Road.

As a port, Looe declined with the coming of the railways, though it continued to maintain a fishing fleet; there were also exports of granite from local quarries, which was used for harbours, breakwaters

When in the 1950s Reginald Hine, the great Hitchin historian, wrote of the town, 'It is lamentable what we have lost during the last 100 years', he was complaining of the desecration of the buildings and

A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).

We are looking south, with a good view of Yarm Town Hall, built in 1710 and standing in splendid isolation in the centre of the High Street.

The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

Good supplies of local oak supported Rye's thriving boat and barge building industry, and as the patches on the hull of the sloop indicate, facilitated repair work.

Two carefully-posed groups of young girls are a feature of this photograph of the village of North Nibley, with the 111 foot- high memorial tower to the martyr William Tyndale on the knoll

In the parish churchyard at Cowley lies the body of William Dodd, novelist, religious author and social celebrity.

This long view of Wendover is taken from the opposite direction to No 44773, looking north-east from the foot of Bacombe Hill; here the national long distance footpath, the Ridgeway Path, leaves the road

The main road was diverted when Napier set out the grounds of Hoo Park.

The tree on the right has since been replaced with cherry trees on either side of the west door.