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A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting. There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

Taken almost from the bottom of High Street, many of these buildings are unchanged a century later, even if their uses have. Brook's Cafe Restaurant is now The Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

This, the northern gate, stands on the site of the Roman Porta Principalis, the gateway of Eboracum. The barbican was demolished in 1835.

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

Baron Serlo de Burg built the first castle at Knaresborough, and during the reign of King John the fortress was also a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families. At this time the Headcorn to Tenterden railway line was opened.

The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre).

The old gentlemen on the right is a typical resident of the hospital, more so than the smart gentleman on the left, strolling with a lady who is keeping up with the latest fashion of a bustled skirt.

This area was developed after 1885 on land owned by the Freehold Land Society. In the distance is the newly-opened Felix Hotel of 1903.

Colchester is often described as Britain's oldest recorded town - this was a town of vital importance to the Romans.

Set on the high ground about 115ft above sea level, inland from the main village, St Nicholas's Church was erected and enlarged from the 13th century by the medieval wool traders of the area.

The church of St John the Baptist was built c1450, and so was the timber- framed Guild House just visible beyond the church in this view.

This is a mid 18th-century symmetrical brick building of quality, two and a half storeys high and five bays wide.

Written records of St Mary's Church date back to 1210. The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

With only a few of the original cottages remaining on the right-hand side of this picture, we can see that this village is undergoing a population explosion, with many families moving from

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.The bank, with its solid door, is half hidden by

This photograph was possibly taken around the time of the regatta, though Falmouth was always a busy place.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

The equestrian statue of Charles I on the left is the square's oldest statue; the king is looking towards the spot where he was executed in Whitehall in 1649.

Weyhill is a roadside settlement of little more than a pub, a post office and the church of St Michael.