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Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

Two other famous residents of East Budleigh were two smuggling parsons - Matthew Mundy and Ambrose Stapleton.

There are excellent walks in the vicinity, not only along the coastal footpath but also across the wilds of Woodbury Common.

By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks

During the late 17th century, Greenock's herring trade with France and the Baltic required a fleet of more than 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.

We associate this exotic and scarce fruit with jollity and celebration, but this trader and her son radiate only a sense of misery and poverty.

This gabled thatched cottage is very typical of the area. Thatch was used before tile and slate. This cottage might be a local store, as the bottom sign is advertising Typhoo Tea.

In September 1909 the 7623yds long Rivelin Tunnel was completed at a cost of £150,000.

Like Westbury, this is the second horse on this site just outside Pewsey. Volunteers from the local fire brigade cut it in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the island was mostly uninhabited, except by pirates seeking safe harbour.

Clifton Hampden includes an assortment of picturesque cottages and striking period houses.

E M Mumford, on the corner of the High Street and the Market Square, displayed enamel trade signs on its gable end when this photograph was taken in the mid 1950s.

It is now believed that Pevensey was Anderida, a Roman fort, which in turn was probably Andredesceaster, the site of the battle between the Saxon invaders and the British in AD490.

This splendid building is less impressive today. The upper floors have an air of neglect, while George Mason's has been replaced by a modern shopfront proclaiming www.designerchildrenswear.com.

One of the oldest hotels in the country, The Lygon Arms boasts a 14th-century fireplace set into its 4 feet thick walls.

It was built in 1879 to a design by J T Darby, with the intended purpose of providing 'a large concert room and other accessories, calculated to afford recreation and amusement to the upper classes.'

It was a focal point of this popular coastal resort, providing a short bracing walk over the briny and a welcome meal afterwards.

Again, this scene disappeared under the rising waters of the Errwood Reservoir, and will never be seen again.

This small village, set amongst the Clwyddian Range of hills, once boasted seven pubs; the shop we see here is a grocer and butcher.

This 19th-century inn has always catered for the anglers who frequent the fast-running waters of the Rover Mawddach in the Coed y Brenin forest near Dolgellay to catch their salmon and trout.

Here we see a quaint corner of this little village near Malton.

As we approach the town, it is possible to see cranes rising above the waterfront of this busy port. Harbour Road is close to the sea. Both the Angel and the next building are clad in weatherboard.

Cadnam, or Cadenham, stands at an important road junction at the north-western corner of the New Forest; sooner or later every traveller in the locality is bound to pass through the village.

The photograph is also interesting as it shows the earlier pier mid-buildings before their reconstruction in 1901, two years after the date of this view.