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The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down.

Note that the pub sign is missing in this interesting Edwardian picture of Eversley. The sign-writing and decoration above the door is unusual and rather striking.

When this photograph was taken, the population of Yateley was just over one thousand. Less than one hundred years later, in the closing stages of the 20th century, it had risen to about 20,000.

Bamford's parish church of St John the Baptist is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861.

With its colourful display of carefully tended flowers, spreading chestnut tree and white picket fences, this scene is an archetypal illustration of what most people visualise when thinking of

Jane Austen, the novelist, lies under a slab of marble in the north aisle of the Cathedral. She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

A more casual style of dress had become popular by the 1950s. Motor bikes were a common feature of the Parade, and the number of cars was growing.

This is one of several villages typical of the industrial china clay area around St Austell.

The area is known as the Eye of Yorkshire, or the Eye of the Ridings. Parliamentary elections were held here until the 19th century. Two of the courts are still used on a daily basis.

This well, with its thirteen water jets, is a reconstruction of an earlier one destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's troops.

Fortunately for the hotel, it has been taken over by a group of local businessmen, and it looks much, much better now.

Situated near the south end of High Street, this is generally regarded as the finest civic building of its period in the country.

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

This photograph of the 15th-century Market Cross shows just how far the original concept of a market town has moved in the 20th century.

Summertime flash floods are a fact of life at Upwey, where the River Wey flows southwards beside Church Street to Westbrook Farm and the Manor House.

The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

A lone tent sits on the empty sands.

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

Following the devastating fire of 1857, a room was rented in the Ship Inn for Sunday worship until a new church could be built.

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

The church of St Mary was founded in the 11th century and was enlarged and over-restored in the Victorian era, but it still retains its Norman chancel and original windows.

This wide sweep of sand leads to Whitby in the distance.

This photograph shows the view north-westwards up Church Street from beside the Old Monmouth Hotel, with the churchyard railings on the right.