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Above the second shop on the left, the wood is brown and its walls are cream; the second bay window has been removed. The fifth shop along is Boots, which now occupies three of the shop fronts.

The paving blocks between the tracks were made from white wood, balastic lava or jarrah. The running of connecting trams between Lytham and Blackpool began in 1905.

Bridge Street leads on to Wood Street, where there is a fountain and a clock tower presented to the town in 1888 by an American visitor.

From Boarsbarrow Hill, this view looks to St Mary Magdalene Parish Church and Georgian Loders Court, which is the home of Viscount and Viscountess Hood (centre). The woods of Waddon rise behind.

The narrow bridge stands at the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Arun, and replaces a former Anglo-Saxon structure built of wood. A

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

The downs to the west of the Arun are notably more wooded than those to the east, which are remarkably open and treeless.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

All about are rocky fields and wooded slopes, pitted with gigantic granite boulders. The cottages in the winding street are solidly built of local granite.

Before Bullenshaw House was built, the area was wooded and provided a natural playground for youngsters. During the war two air-raid shelters were built into the hill.

The architect John Wood the Elder planned the Parades as part of an area based on the architecture of ancient Rome.

With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople. There are fine views over the town and to the wooded slopes beyond.

Once surrounded by the deer-haunted woods and heaths of Cranborne Chase, Alderholt has kept much of its original character, despite some new houses and a church of little antiquity; the latter is a building

Here we see the roofs of Clifton from the pleasantly wooded Downs.

The central doors, which can just be seen in this photograph, were made by the famous wood carver, Thompson of Kilburn: his signature, a mouse, is carved on the right-hand door.

A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Its Anglo-Saxon name means 'wooded hill in the territory of Billa's people'.

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

Paddock Wood is today a surprisingly modern industrial town. At the centre of the hop- picking area, it was once a great hop centre with many oast houses.

Warwickshire`s vernacular architecture characteristically uses a mixture of building materials; with stone in the Cotswolds, for instance, and an abundance of timber in the formerly well