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By 1900 it had ceased milling corn and was a timber yard and chair maker's workshop, but it burned down completely in 1912.

The older part of town is surrounded on all sides by water - the River Aire and two canals. Rope making was a flourishing industry both for the marine and agricultural markets.

Fred is laying down money & no mistake.' After the deth of Frederick Crowley, Ashdown was acquired by Guy Ferrand, who changed the name to Morland Hall.

This is seemingly a quiet place on the Esk Valley that runs down to Whitby, but this bridge was swept away in a flood on 23 July 1930. It was rebuilt in 1992 in the style of the original.

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

Great Marsden covers what is now called Colne, and Little Marsden was known as Nelson down to Reedley. Walverton Water ran between the two Marsdens.

The village green is the largest in the Fylde and is graced by a duck-pond and the original village pump (other pumps were melted down and used for jointing new water mains by the Fylde Water Board).

Boots (in the middle distance on the right) is also still with us, but the Coliseum cinema beyond is now a good museum of the town's history.

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The palace is thought to have been burnt down accidently in 1746 by General Hawley's troops.

By 1819 the designer John Rennie had constructed a canal from Kendal in the north down to Wigan, a canal remarkable for the ingenuity of its design.

Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

An interesting balcony has steps down to the garden, where leisure furniture and croquet hoops indicate a relaxed way of life. A motor launch is tied up at the private mooring.

of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

The original village was burnt down in the 1600s and had to be completely rebuilt.

This view looks south-west down Loxwood Road towards the parish church, whose spire can just be seen amid the trees behind the last chimney-stack.

A toboggan ride also careered down the side of the glen, but it was closed in 1900 after an accident.

Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle. The mill closed in 1930 and lay derelict until 1977.

In the 1920s and 30s Walter Collins printed a well-known series of sepia postcards of the town.