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The spacious Promenade created around 1912 is here shown to advantage.

A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.There

This great citadel was erected by Edward I of England between 1285 and 1322 as one of a chain of castles by which he kept a secure footing in Wales.

The Victorian commercial heart of this cul-de-sac village, strung out along the back lane into Melbury Park, was represented by the Melbury Osmond shop.

However, de Clare had the backing of the barons and retook his own castle by force, forcing the Welsh to withdraw.

Whitby Hall, seen here, was built in Stanney Lane by the Grace family in the 1860s. In 1931 it was purchased by the council, who used the building as offices.

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

The deck-chair audience listens to the band. The view looks across the Pavilion (top left), which became the Ritz Theatre and was destroyed by fire in the 1950s.

This view shows the prospect as revealed through the west door, seen in the previous photograph.

This photograph shows the back of the late-Victorian rectory which became the home of the writer George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950, at the age of ninety-four.

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

By now the advent of steam was apparent even in small craft.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.

A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.

Only the feet of the carter are visible, as his horse stands patiently waiting while he unloads part of his wares from the back of his wagon for delivery to the creeper-festooned cottages in this village

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

After a spell as the Hustlers, this pub has reverted to its original name.

After a spell as the Hustlers, this pub has reverted to its original name.

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty. These, judging by the smartness of their dress (complete with pocket handkerchief), are clearly not fishermen.

Chalfont St Giles retains much more of its heritage and character than its southern neighbour, Chalfont St Peter, with a High Street lined with good buildings, a pond and the parish church