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The first chapter's tour starts in the heart of the lush Vale of Taunton Deane in the county town of Taunton, a bustling town with much of its former through traffic taken by the nearby M5.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library

It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

Silhouetted against the skyline, the south lock- house does not immediately appear to be a part of one of the county's major tourist attractions.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

Bedlington was once the capital of Bedlingtonshire, and as a part of the County Palatine of Durham belonged to the Bishops of Durham until 1844.

Sir Robert Lumley was granted licences to crenellate in 1389 and 1392, making Lumley, along with Raby, County Durham's two late 14th-century castles.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.

It was the second Gothic Revival building to be completed in County Durham; the style had become fashionable thanks to Horace Walpole, who had used it to great effect at his own house, Strawberry Hill,

Pevsner says of Great Budworth that it is 'one of the best pieces of villagescape in the county. Yet there is hardly a house that would need a close look'.

It was taken over to become the County Asylum in 1829, which was enlarged over the years and closed in April 1993, when it was called St Audrey's Hospital.

The tour now reaches the northern part of the county, perhaps the least visited part of Nottinghamshire. The largest towns are Worksop and East Retford – Worksop was covered in Chapter 4.

Between the 1930s and 1970s this was one of the largest pig markets in the county. In addition to weekly livestock markets, there were spring and autumn sales for store cattle.

However, the village does have the county's oldest church.

When this picture was taken, Ryton was a pit village in County Durham with no less than five working pits in the immediate vicinity.

Looking back into Bridge Street with Burden's Corner now well established, the London County & Westminster Bank opposite retained its authentic late Victorian frontage.

It became the county town of Merioneth, and was noted for Welsh Tween and flanned manufacturing. Behind, the peak of Cadair idris rises to 2927 feet.

Set in the midst of particularly fertile part of the county, Ottery had a market for centuries.

Its prior, as the agent of the abbey of Grestian, used its vast medieval barn to store the produce collected from the abbey's other estates, which were located in half a dozen other counties.

It lies a little to the west of Penn, just across the county border in Staffordshire (where Penn also used to belong, of course).

One of the county's earliest churches, it was founded in the 7th century and has several Saxon crosses, one carved with both pagan and Christian symbols.

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.