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The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

A little south-west of Witley, the route passes the tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub on the A286 Haslemere Road; it stands opposite the village cricket ground with the 1923 village hall.

South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

The small sculpture of Pan was later moved to a new position on the lawn south of the rose gardens. The octagonal seat shown in the background was removed in later years.

At this point, the river is placid, and silver fish can be seen darting just below the surface; to the south, in the still water by the Causeway, all kinds of ducks and wading birds are fed

The chancel and south chapel date from the 14th century and the exceptionally tall tower was built about a century later.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay.

Double rows of beach tents (centre left) line the Cart Road to the south of the Bay Private Hotel.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

Said to derive its name from a local family, the area basically occupies a stretch of Edgware Road about a mile south of Edgware.

The North and South Brinks, sombre rows of mansions and warehouses, look out over each other on opposite sides of the river.

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

Holyport, two miles south of Maidenhead was originally 'Horipod' or dirty market town.

The north aisle was added in 1746, the south aisle in 1764, and the main body of the building was restored in 1878.

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

Vague echoes of C F A Voysey are to be seen in the higher building in the centre; the demolition of W E Trent's Gaumont Cinema to the south of the Tally Ho in the late 1980s was a loss to the area as a

Inside, the nave south arcade is partly late 12th-century and of high quality, and so are the rest of the nave arches, which are early 14th-century.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott stayed with the Alexanders before setting off on his famous final journey to the South Pole.

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

The View South-East F W Woolworth & Co Ltd stands on the left next to James Walker, jeweller.

As we have already seen, Breconshire is renowned for its many waterfalls and caves in the far south west.