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During the early part of the 20th century, the boat-building firm of Samuel Saunders took over Goring wharf.

Rose-clad cottages line the road in Burnsall, lying in the heart of Wharfedale where the drystone walls spread like a net over the fells, as we can just see in the background.

Note the Dales farmers and their wives sitting lined up to the right of the statue, perhaps waiting for a bus.

Viewed shortly after its restoration, this cross with a shaft and a figure of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century - the ball on top dates from the time of Queen Anne.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

The Crown Hotel, formerly one of Lyndhurst's inns, was rebuilt in the Tudor style late in Victoria's reign.

Bradford-on-Avon has changed little in the last century.

The Trinity Weslyan Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Mawney Road and Linden Street, was built in 1888 and provided seating for 750 worshippers.

Nazeing's name means 'settlers on the projection of land'.

Tillingham has been owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's since at least 604.

A little to the north of the Thames and beyond Staines is the village of Stanwell.

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century, and it still commands good views to the north and

There is not much traffic—a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger—in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

Much of the downland around Findon, at the southern end of the same 'wind-gap' in the South Downs, was for centuries an open sheep-walk.

What an unusual combination of goods the trader is selling in the third shop from the right: fishing tackle and fireworks!

Dr Boddington was a local man; in 1840 he wrote a pioneering paper on the treatment of TB, then known as pulmonary consumption.

The names of the hotels—the Imperial, the Majestic and the Grand - indicate that the resort could attract a cosmopolitan and wealthy clientele.

Frith's photographer moves on to Clapham Common; seeking human interest, he pauses at the Long Pond at the eastern end of the Common, looking from the opposite side to C327009 (pages 108 - 109).

Taken from above the mouth of the River Leven, this view overlooks Greenodd Sands towards Ulverston.

A railway once crossed the road at the bottom of Berry Lane.

Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.

Totton, Eling's larger neighbour, once claimed the title of the 'largest village in Hampshire' - though it has expanded so much in recent years that by no stretch of the imagination could it still be

Goring-on-Thames is famous for its rather complex series of locks and weirs which are designed to control the river's water level and allow the passage of pleasure craft.

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.