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Dorking had a thriving corn market from the beginning of the 17th century, which was held on Thursdays.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

Greenock was the birthplace, in 1736, of James Watt, who was born in a house on Dalrymple Street.

At the crossroads of Market Place and Potter's Street stands the neo-classical Corn Exchange, designed by Lewis Vulliamy, whose original frontage had a grand entrance dominated by a statue of the harvest

Everard's Commercial Hotel is to the left, and in the distance is the earlier Corn Exchange of 1836. To the right is the cupola of Cupola House.

This is the main street through the town. The steps used to lead into the post office, but it is now a restaurant and Tourist Information Office.

A host of street lamps, which were erected in late 1890, chase their way down the road. The closest is the lamp outside Frederick Wright's County Cigar Store.

This view was taken looking east from Bridge Street past the bridge across the mill stream (the river itself is out of shot a hundred yards away to the right), which was dug for the abbey in the 10th century

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

The road to the right of the Three Cups Inn is St Mary`s Street.

The school was founded in 1558 in the will of Thomas Alleyne, a priest and Oxford scholar who was born in Uttoxeter.

Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

When the High Street was built up, a tunnel was created to maintain access to the court, which has now been opened up onto Little Church Street at the back.

This was the first street in the town to be built, but it had long lost its residents when this view was taken.

Still pleasantly rural, with views of woods and the distant Bowland Fells, this village stands near Wennington Hall, where Peter Hesketh, founder of Fleetwood-on-Wyre was born.

A public library had been opened in 1896 in the Corn Exchange in the Market Place. It then moved to Silver Street, and finally came to rest here in 1904.

There has been a bridge at Warrington since the 13th century, when the town centre began to develop in its present location away from the medieval village off Church Street.

The parish church of St Peter, which dates from before 1222, was built on the site of part of the old St John's Chapel at the side of the Roman Akeman Street.

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

Robert Recorde, pioneer in the study of algebra, was born here in 1510. Augustus John was another native of the town.

Cookham will forever be associated with the artist Stanley Spencer who was born in Cookham in 1891 and died in 1959.

Duncan Street was at the lower end of the development, and never had the most attractive shops. Nevertheless the upper stonework contains some remarkable carvings.

Down a tiny lane off the main street, we find the charming 19th-century church of St Gregory.

An interesting collection of old cars can be seen along the left-hand side of the road next to the tea rooms on the main street of this pleasant village.