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by the new block displaying the Betabake fascia beside the Salad Bowl fruit shop, with the Louis Francke ladies' hairdressing salon on the first floor, while opposite Montague Burton's has a closing-down

The old wind pump at Turf Fen, its sails now still, offers testament to man's battle with the rising flood waters down the centuries.

We are on the southern slope of the Downs, north of Chichester. Boxgrove Priory, of the Benedictine Order, was founded in 1105.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes wind down to the North Sea. Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

Fine sea views can be obtained from the regular summer open-top bus service which runs from Brighton to Rottingdean, a picturesque village situated in a dene, or valley in the downs.

A few children are paddling in the water, but further along, adults swim in the sea, having changed in bathing machines that have been brought down by horses to the water's edge.

The market cross is an imposing structure, reflecting Ilchester's former status as the county town.

The distinctive profile of the Lion Rock frowns down on the River Dove in the part of Dovedale known descriptively as the Narrows.

Just down on the right is R Ridgers' fish and chip saloon, and on the corner is a familiar pub sign. At one time there were a staggering 45 inns in Lymington.

The neatly mown lawns and carefully maintained flowerbeds surrounding Cheam Park House are viewed from the vantage point above the porticoed entrance; we are looking down onto the sweeping gravelled drive

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

Into this somewhat irregular setting were inserted the drawing-board creations of formal, manicured rose gardens with their inevitable stone urns and steps leading down from a parterre.

This is the seaward end of the High Street, which runs down onto the beach. In an earlier period this area included beautiful sheltered gardens and a bandstand.

In the distance Crabbe Street, named after the local poet the Rev George Crabbe, who inspired the work of Benjamin Britten, leads down to the beach and the lifeboat station.

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

This building burnt down in 1896, but was subsequently rebuilt.

The sinuous valley of the Tattenham Corner branch- line threads its way through the contours at the foot of Banstead Downs on the right.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Further down we come to the crossroads with Michaelgate and Christ's Hospital Terrace.

The farm buildings are in a less orderly state, and there is a Spar shop down the road on the left.

The 12th century Church of St Helen and St Giles looks down on the Clock Tower, erected in 1921 as a memorial to Rainham men who fell during the First World War.

This delicacy probably went down well with Vitbe (left). Snow's is now a house called, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.

The Sun Hotel's garden reached right down to the river.

Panama-hatted Tom Roe, 'Dealer in Worn-out Horses' (perhaps a grand name for a rag and bone man), clip-clops his way down the Skipton Road through Keighley.