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By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Rebuilt in 1867 by John Loughborough Pearson, the architect of the eastern extension of Wakefield Cathedral, the parish church of St Helen looks down on the town's market place.

The church of St Nicholas which dominates this view was redesigned in 1863 by Anthony Salvin.

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

After his trial for treason at Northampton in 1164, Thomas à Beckett escaped from St Andrew's Priory.

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s.

However, it would be over 50 years before the General Enclosure Act was passed in 1858, which would enable further parts of the Heath to be enclosed, and the skeletal structure of the town to

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country.

At a distance is the ironstone church of St John Evangelist with its Weldon stone steeple, rebuilt in 1797 after being struck by lightning.

It is clear that Finlay's is under competition following the arrival of the chain store in the form of Freeman Hardy & Willis.

To the east of the Old Church, but sharing its graveyard, is the Church of St John The Evangelist.

Caterham is in two parts, up the hill where the medieval church is, and Caterham Valley to the east on the valley floor, which grew up when the railway arrived in 1856 - it was in fact a

This view of St George's Plateau shows the London & North Western Railway Hotel; it was built by the London & North Western Railway Company, and opened in 1871.

The church of St John the Baptist has an avenue of yew trees.

Villagers call it the Square but to historians this is the Market Place.

The poet John Skelton was rector here for a quarter of a century.

These Grade II* listed almshouses at Nos 10-13 Kingsbury Street stand opposite the south entrance to St Mary's.

It is an ancient fording point on Sherborne Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush.

Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles.

The charming village of Penshurst lies in a valley at the junction of the River Eden and the Medway; it is renowned for the stately mansion of Penshurst Place, the home of the Sidney family

The charming village of Penshurst lies in a valley at the junction of the River Eden and the Medway; it is renowned for the stately mansion of Penshurst Place, the home of the Sidney family since the

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th