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Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.

A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley. Local legends say that dragons and serpents inhabited the forest.

From Crowborough the route heads back nearer to Hailsham's environs and to the village of East Hoathly, a village now much more peaceful than a few years ago.

This pond with its island is a most attractive feature in the outer part of the town. While it is somewhat municipalised nowadays, it is very ancient.

St Mary and All Saints has ancient crosses in the churchyard and a thousand years of history.

The guild was a combination of a club and an insurance policy, in as much as the deceased members would be prayed for to shorten their time in purgatory.

It was the production of soap and alkali that became the most important industry here resulting from the proximity of salt from Cheshire and coal from Lancashire.

This is the mill in its derelict state before John Shelmardine presented it to the National Trust, and Dr Cyril Bouchier of UMIST started restoring the mill machinery to working order.

This has all gone, and survives only in the name of a street - Brine Road.

On the right is the Carlton Hotel which was the start of an ambitious project for a crescent over 600 feet long.

Brighton is the biggest and most lively and cosmopolitan of the Sussex resorts. The sea bathing and taking of salt water cures laid the foundations for the town's growth after 1750.

As we look toward West Pier from the west, we see the landward pavilion at the right, then the tower of the Metropole to its left. Nearer the camera are a range of somewhat disparate stucco fronts.

Cartmel Priory survived the reformation of Henry VIII thanks to the simple fact that the villagers had nowhere else to worship.

The façade of the Town Hall is perhaps too busy; but notice that it contains a number of niches.

The Bethesda Baptist Chapel is seen in all its glory on the right.

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Diveting eastwards up Mill Street, our tour reaches St Cuthbert's Church, which served the east part of the town and was possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin.

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

The parish church of St Peter, with its solid flintstone tower dominating the high street shops and mid-morning traffic in this picture, was originally built by the Normans alongside the spacious

Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.

This photograph shows looms and other equipment installed in a workshop at the technical school; it shows the importance of the cloth industry to the town.

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Evan Evans, a monoglot Welshman, started coal mining here during the latter part of the 19th century.