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The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral. It is interesting that in the right foreground a Belisha Beacon stands, before the introduction of zebra crossings.

The vehicle outside the kissing gate at the end of the church path is a 1920s model. The memorial cross at the corner of the churchyard commemorates those who fell in the 1914-18 war.

Note the signal box just after the end of the building, and the level crossing gates between the two cars in our photograph.

St Nicholas's Church was built at the abbey gates for lay abbey staff, tenants and workers, and for travellers to pray for safe onward journeys or who were about to cross the River Thames.

The George Hotel on the right with the porch survives, but the branch railway line to Burnham- on-Sea, its level crossing gates shown closed, has long gone.

This is the eastern entrance to Nonsuch Park, with the stone cross and drinking fountain erected in 1895 to the memory of W F Gamul Farmer by his eleven surviving children.

St Nicholas's lych gate was used as a resting place for coffins before burial. In the opposite corner is the village school founded by the gift of £180 from a tailor, James Thistleton.

St Helen's churchyard contains a great historical treasure: an Anglo-Saxon churchyard cross, the most important pre-Conquest monument in Nottinghamshire (right).

One of the best-recognised beauty spots in Rickmansworth, the Splash (the town ditch), which is being crossed by the Austin A40, had originally been part of the drive to Bury Manor House, whose gates can

The site of the Marquis of Montrose's execution was not here, but at the Mercat Cross in the High Street. Having been declared a traitor in 1644, Montrose was not given the benefit of a trial.

Western Cross is the junction of the High Street, Alton Road, Dunleys Hill and West Street.

China Street, St Leonard's Gate, Penny Street, Church Street and Market Street formed the original layout of the town from 1610, as we can see from Speed's map of Lancashire, which had an inset showing

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

Across the River Wey from Godalming is Farncombe, once a hamlet but now in effect a suburb of the town.

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

The station is to the left of the footbridge, which remains today; but the level crossing gates have been replaced by automatic barriers, and the villa went for blocks of flats.

At the end of the road you can see the signal box on the far side of the railway, beyond the Station Hotel, now the Crossing Gates pub.

The proposed design, an Eleanor Cross in the High Street, was supported by Lord Rosebery but vetoed by seven tradesmen.

Built on the site of a monastery founded by St Dochdwy or Dochau, the name by which St Cyngar was better known, the present church dates from the 19th century.

The 14th-century cross, on its original base and at the top of eight stone steps, underwent restoration in 1878.

Although few village buildings pre-date the 17th century, Croston is an ancient place.

It was a very attractive feature for the growing number of cross-water visitors.

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.