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Here we see newer housing in a location on top of the Downs, amongst gorse bushes. Wooden sheds stand in the gardens.

Here this steamer is passing Sunny Corner on her return down the Truro River towards Malpas. Behind is Newham Quay, now much extended into a modern wharf.

The village of Streatley can be seen nestling between the Thames and the steep escarpment of the chalk downs, which are dotted with yews and junipers. The river is wide and shallow at this point.

Four-lane traffic thunders down the now wider Parliament Street. On the left is the Home Office, and to the right is the Red Lion pub, built in 1898 on the corner of Derby's Gate.

A walk down High West Street from Thomas Hardy's statue will bring the visitor to the County Museum, where the novelist's study has been faithfully recreated, complete with the pens used to write each

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

In the days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands and

They would be towed down to the sea, possibly by the horse in the picture.

Since there is no evidence of Arthur ever existing, the claim that this is his grave is academic, though it would be foolish to ignore the power of handed-down legend.

Note the soldiers marching down the road side by side in the centre of the photograph, just to the right of Craster's corner shop.

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond. The Castle gateway is out of shot on the left.

Located at the western extremity of the South Downs, Buriton captures the essence of the traditional English village.

The photographer looks back down the hill past 19th-century houses towards the village centre.

The setting of Cadgwith is superb, with its thatched fishermen's cottages looking straight down to the wide waters of the English Channel not far from the Lizard Point.

The Monsal Head Hotel, seen here in the mid-50s, commands a spectacular view down into Monsal and Upper Dale from its slightly incongruous Tyrolean balcony which was added to the substantial limestone

The River Pang rises on the Berkshire Downs, beginning as an intermittent chalk 'winterbourne' before maturing to a clear trout stream.

The people of Gloucester would call Robert Raikes 'Bobby Wildgoose' as he walked down the road - he always looked grand.

Hermitage Lane cuts steeply down through the sandstone. This evocative view, wholly unchanged today, is barely 200 yards from the busy High Street.

This view looks down Branthwaite Brow towards the River Kent.

At the bus stop we can look down the High Street at the houses and shops.

The banks beside the road show how it has eroded with use over hundreds of years; because of this the houses and small cottages on Church Street have steps down to the pavement.

We are on the south downs behind Seaford: a now-vanished rural scene, with stooks in the field on the left and horses descending the hill.

While many houses burned down in the fire of 1659, the 15th century church of St. Edmund survived because the churchyard served as a fire break.

On the downs above Osmington is this famous hill-figure of George III, 108 yards high and 93 yards long.