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Hazlerigg Hall and Rutland Hall, built to the designs of the then County Education Committee Architect in 1939 in a neo-Tudor style, were the original halls of residence to Loughborough College.

Ashford, situated in the south-west corner of the county, takes its name from an ancient river crossing, the Exeford of the Domesday Book.

This fine view of Dorchester from the meadows alongside the River Frome shows the county town of Dorset much as Thomas Hardy would have known it when, as an apprentice architect, he would walk there

Littlehampton was a thriving port during the Middle Ages, when stone from Normandy was landed here in order to construct many of the county's churches and castles.

Cosby brook runs through the centre of this pleasant village, which is a doorstep to the city; the village was the first in the county to have a conservation area.

In a period when just about every fine building in the county was owned by a wool or cloth merchant, this house reminds us of the importance of the legal profession to the wealth of Ludlow

One of the largest surviving 16th-century houses in the county, this magnificent house was owned by the de la Bere family until around 1831.

The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.

The Shire Hall was built in 1789-91 by John Johnson, the County Surveyor. It is Chelmsford's most imposing public building.

All the buildings on the Lambeth side have gone: County Hall, begun in 1912, is now a Marriott Hotel and aquarium, and to the left is the London Eye, the giant ferris wheel for the Millennium.

The River Mole forms the county boundary here, south-west of the church, so the right bank in the view is in Sussex. This is Long Bridge, seen from Church Meadow, now a more manicured space.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

In the background is the County Fire Office at the end of Regent Street. A similar replacement building was erected on the site in the 1920s.

the time when Machester's workers even considered the need to escape to live in more peaceful and cleaner areas, Chorley Hall is thought to be amongst the oldest inhabited timber-framed houses in the county

Meanwhile, local schoolboy Michael Colin Cowdrey, 17, made his debut for Kent County Cricket Club in this year.

It is one of the few monastic churches in the county; these were preserved in the violent suppression of the monasteries and permitted to remain to be used as the parish church.

Horsham was described as a borough in the early 13th century, and it had become one of the chief towns in the county by the 17th and 18th centuries.

Wakelin's (left, in Sutton House) declared itself to be 'the cycle, sport and baby carriage store of the county'.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

The tree-lined B4017, running south to north, bisects a village green that is reputed to be one of the finest in the county.

The buildings on the right, formerly the Town School, were known as Maryport Chambers; they comprised the Ministry of Food and Labour, Devizes County Court Office and the Women's Voluntary Service.

In the spring, when the little gardens and window boxes are filled with flowers, Otterton is one of the delights of the county.

There is archaeological evidence that the parish has been inhabited since the Iron Age, and a Roman villa, considered to have been of some importance, was excavated by Samuel Lysons, a county

The Stour is another Dorset river well worth following from source to mouth, to gain a feel for this part of the county.