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Few of the late 18th- and early 19th-century visitors to the county passed through Lampeter, but one visitor who walked from Carmarthen to Chester stayed a weekend in the town in 1836.

One site on the north side (Neil Wright) This was the headquarters of Holland County Council from 1927 to 1974.

Situated six miles north-west of Barnard Castle, Romaldkirk in 1898 was not in fact in County Durham but in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Within a few years, however, the Sutherlands had abandoned Trentham: in 1910 the fourth Duke offered it for sale to the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.

St Michael's Church is unique in the county in having the base of the tower open on three sides. There is a picture with the arches walled up, but they were unblocked in the mid 1800s.

In 1967 the building was converted to house the Pembrokeshire County Museum and Records Office. The latter is still housed there today.

St Paul's Square became very much the civic centre of the town with the Floral Hall, the Corn Exchange, the Town Hall, the Shire Hall and County Offices looking out onto the church in its central

It was built as the Town and Country Club by the architect Henry Cheers; it later became the County Library, before disappearing in the 1950s to make way for additions to the hotel.

The Post Office is to the left, the Harris Public Library on the right, and the County Sessions Hall in the middle.

On the wall is a bubble gum machine, once a popular feature of the frontage of every village store in the country.

Moving west to the county's boundary with Yorkshire, our tour reaches Harworth, an old greatly expanded village lying east of the Tickhill to Blyth road.

It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library.

Between the two are the county buildings, which occupy the site of the house in which the Gowrie conspiracy against James VI was hatched in 1600.

On the right is the Buckinghamshire County Museum housed in Ceely House, the house with the porch on the right, and in the old Grammar School beyond.

The Country Stores, a Mace shop complete with modern sunblinds, offers a wide range of supplies.

The crowded stand, erected in front of the yellow brick gymnasium with its two towers, indicates that this is probably a match between county teams held during the annual Cheltenham Cricket Festival, rather

John Howard (1726- 1790) lived at nearby Cardington, and was twice Mayor of Bedford and in 1773 Lord High Sheriff of the county.

This is a well-kept Garden of Remembrance in the centre of this large village; next door is the County Library.

Lying in the north west of the county, Mildenhall boasts one of the most magnificent churches in the region.

The church stands at the entry to Bodmin and was passed by everyone travelling through the county before the town was by- passed by the A30.

The motor agents' premises on the right belong to Murkett Bros, one of the county's premier automobile companies which grew out of an existing agricultural machinery business with its roots in the 19th

The last post-mill in the county, dated 1711, it blends with the owner/managers house and the store shed to provide a self-contained industrial group.

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s. It was given a more ornate entrance building in the 1860s, including the tower.

More recently, Brockham has laid claim to regularly mounting the biggest Bonfire Night celebration in the county, rivalling those of Edenbridge in Kent and Lewes in Sussex.