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The 'Cambrian Traveller's Guide' of 1813 was a little sceptical, pointedly recording that 'the village contains a castle of somewhat modern construction'.

It was built in 1900 as a workhouse for the Hursley District Council at the northern end of Hursley Road.

In 1871 W Harrison, secretary of the Birmingham Gas Co, certainly did his stuff; he cooked the books and made off with £18,000.When the company was dissolved, £100 was left in the kitty for Harrison

Broadstairs, a well-known resort on the Isle of Thanet between Margate and Ramsgate, retains its village atmosphere.

The Bridge House Hotel, seen to the left of the bridge, claimed that it was the only top class hotel in Eton. It was demolished in 1964 and a new restaurant has taken its place.

Behind are the chimneys of its vicarage, while on the right is the church hall gable, now demolished for the modern close of houses, Trapp Court.

Chorleywood is on the south side of the Chess valley. Chorleywood Common survived an attempt at enclosure and we see it here in its late 19th-century gorse-covered state.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

The three-storey framed building on the left must have been very new when this photograph was taken.

It is interesting to remember that a settlement existed on this site for nearly two millennia before the foundation of neighbouring Bournemouth.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

The trees in the street have been pollarded, and the premises of John Cole and Delbridges have gone.

The millpond for the old Hazlewick mill was fed by the River Mole, which flowed close to Three Bridges railway station (on the left through the trees).

This magnificent cathedral heralds the beginning of English Christianity: Augustine was appointed its first archbishop in 597. Over the centuries it has been witness to fire and murder.

At the end of the 19th century it was in the hands of the Deedes family. Seventy years later, the art historian Kenneth Clark lived here, to be succeeded by his colourful son Alan, the Tory MP.

Situated next to Penshurst Station, this village grew to accommodate visitors on their way to take goods to the town.

The stores and post office, right, were once an essential part of this village.

The Vicar of St Peter and St Paul's Church, James Ramsay, played a major part in ensuring the abolition of slavery. He died in 1789.

Sutton Park is surrounded on all sides by suburbia. Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

The lighthouse, seen here from St James's Green, was built in 1890: 'the light is of 800 candle power and occulates twice every 20 seconds'. On the left are Adelaide Cottage and Caithness House.

On the right, both of the nearer buildings, one of which was Edward Masters, ironmongers, have been rebuilt.

The Cloptons had co-ordinated the rebuilding of the church in the late 15th century. The mile-long avenue of lime trees leading to the house was planted in 1678.

This is one of the best-known churches in Suffolk. Apart from the chancel, the entire church was rebuilt in c1485-1525.