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Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

An interesting balcony has steps down to the garden, where leisure furniture and croquet hoops indicate a relaxed way of life. A motor launch is tied up at the private mooring.

of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

The original village was burnt down in the 1600s and had to be completely rebuilt.

This view looks south-west down Loxwood Road towards the parish church, whose spire can just be seen amid the trees behind the last chimney-stack.

A toboggan ride also careered down the side of the glen, but it was closed in 1900 after an accident.

Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle. The mill closed in 1930 and lay derelict until 1977.

In the 1920s and 30s Walter Collins printed a well-known series of sepia postcards of the town.

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

Further down the hill is De Barr's shoe shop. The large brick-faced building on the corner of George Street announces A V Britton, cars and coaches for hire.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

Bram Stoker, the author of 'Dracula', stayed in Royal Crescent in 1890; he imagined his heroine, Mina, running after the sleep- walking Lucy as she went 'along North Terrace and down the

Unlike many of its rivals, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire never sold out to the railway companies, some of whom made a policy of buying up canals, then running them down so that they could gradually

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

After hanging for three hours, his body was taken down and quartered.

An early experiment using water-carts to damp down the streets found that it took 7,000 gallons to water one mile of street, 18 feet in width, at a cost of 8s 4d per mile.

The two old houses in the centre show how piecemeal were the alterations carried out by various owners down the centuries: below each has a wall of stone rubble, and above at least two courses of brick

You could get your feet wet stepping down into the Southdown Omnibus Office over on the far side of the Square and what on earth is that greenhouse doing in front of the statue?

Going north to the Godstone to Reigate road, that part of the A25 that runs along the greensand ridge south of the North Downs, we reach the village of Bletchingley.

The 1890s terrace with its four gabled full-height bay windows steps down the hill; the left-hand one on the corner of Outwood Lane is now no longer a Barclays Bank, but the offices of financial consultants

Note the house halfway down the street on the left with six windows and a central pedimented doorcase. This is Unicorn House, No 28, which had its moment in history.