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& Son's steam lorries hiss and puff their way across Golden Lion Corner and City Coaches no longer make the dramatic turn from the narrow North Street, into the Market Place, on their way from Wood

The slopes below Banstead Wood make a fine vantage point above Outwood Lane meandering on its way towards Kingswood.

It is situated next to the primary school in wooded country on the chart ('la chert' means 'common').

The photograph looks to the south bank, where a footpath follows the river downstream through Marles Wood to Salesbury Hall.

In the foreground on the left are examples of the splendid wood carving which is such a feature in the church; it was executed by a local family, the Hunstones.

On the western fringe of the town, a very pleasant walk leads up the wooded valley to Panorama rocks. Just below the moors is this rustic old well in Heber's Ghyll.

This once thickly-wooded dell on both sides of the River Spodden had been thinned out somewhat by the 1890s.

Samuel Greg's Quarry Bank Mill stands on the banks of the Bollin where it flows through a wooded glen. Originally water-powered, the mill remains intact, and is now in the care of the National Trust.

The building on the corner of Broadway with the stylish curved frontage (right) housed Woods the tobacconist's and Porter's Wallpapers, both familiar names to Accringtonians over many

The Whitewell Hotel in the Hodder Valley has long been famed for its hospitality and proximity to good fishing. Another view of brooding Pendle Hill can be had from Whitewell.

This famous shopping street started in the 1760s as a row of elegant houses designed by the architect John Wood.

Notice the various building materials used, from flint and stone on the right to thatching and wood panelling beneath the half-hip gable of the barn on the left.

The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering

Beyond the town, in the background, is the Little Skirrid mountain, the top of which is not quite as wooded as it is today.

In the distance rowers are rounding a wooded island. In 1926 the boating was leased to Mr Fred Falkingham, who maintained a trim fleet of rowing-boats for visitors, as well a motor-launch.

The name Ockley comes from 'Occa's lea` - a Saxon who made a clearing in the wood here.

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

In the background are Hawkbatch and Seckley Woods.

The wooded and beautiful Luxulyan valley is a magnet for lovers of industrial archeology, with its 1839 Treffry viaduct and aqueduct linking the mining and china clay industries with the coastal ports.

There is a riverside inn at Bramerton called the Wood's End: its recorded history stretches back well over 300 years.

The sign by the people on the footpath advertises Woods, Coal & Coke Merchants, later to become 'Punch' Mullard's builder's yard and presently, Spinningfield House flats.

The picturesque cliffs, coves, glens and wooded scenery that surround Hastings appealed to the Romantic tastes of the years after 1800.

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers