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Most of East Devon's public houses are extremely ancient, and have served as places of refreshment for centuries.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes wind down to the North Sea. Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

Monks from the former abbey at nearby Athelney are reputed to have built part of the church and carved its bench ends with figures, some of which are depicted jumping over rhynes.

Berry Head is the southern limit of Torbay, and a country park as well. A hundred years ago, it was being used by people for recreation purposes (left) and nautical types too (right).

Basildon's first shop opened in Market Pavement on 16 August 1958. It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

It afforded magnificent views of the Isle of Man, the Welsh mountains and the Lakeland fells from the viewing platform at the top.

Taken from the corner of Arrowe Park Road, this photograph is looking east along The Village.

None of them remains on the same site, though Woolworths has not moved far.

Facing the small green is Riverview, a fine 18th-century brick house - it was the home of the artist Dendy Sadler in 1900.

The number of inns in Sawston is proof of its importance: it was on the coaching routes between Cambridge and London, and from Norwich to the south-west.

The abbey church of St Peter and St Paul is all that remains of an Augustinian abbey built on the site in 1170. The High Street has many interesting houses, some dating back to the 16th century.

Eynsham has developed from a small agricultural village, and is now almost the size of a small town. We are looking along Acre End Street.

Judge William Blackstone, who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England, paid for the spire of St Peter's Church, which we can see here in the background.

This mill, on the river Bure, was the largest of the watermills in Norfolk.

Thomas Paine, the author of 'The Rights of Man' and participant in both the American and French revolutions, was born in Thetford in 1737.

To the east of the house, the swimming pool, with its red-brick orangery designed by Reginald Cooper in the mid 1930s, presents a peaceful well-ordered scene.

Although fragments of the Norman abbey remain, the present abbey church dates from 1499, and was a prodigiously long time a-building: the nave was still roofless into the 17th century.

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.

The roof of St Wendreda's Church is a testament to the carpenter's art, a hammerbeam roof with one hundred and twenty angels playing musical instruments.

Between Soham and Wicken once lay a large expanse of water called Soham Mere. It suffered from gradual encroachment by farmers over the centuries, and finally succumbed in the drainage of 1664.

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved. This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

Richmond had a strong Roman Catholic tradition, partly due to the Lawson family of nearby Brough Hall, who gave the land here in Newbiggin for the church of St Joseph and St Francis Xavier; it was