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Looking at this beautiful 16th-century thatched cottage, it is not difficult to see what attracted Kenneth Graham, author of The Wind in The Willows, and Dick Francis, ex-jockey and thriller writer, to

Above the centre arches are the carved heads of Father Thames, looking downstream, and Isis, looking upstream.

In the distance is the church of St Mary Major with its massive 13th-century tower, square at the base and octagonal at the top.

The pump and war memorial remain unchanged, although the Victorian double- gabled house beyond has lost its original porch, and the windows of the Globe Inn have been altered.

Lying two hundred yards south-west of St Mary's the chapel is a small church built by Earl Odda and dedicated to the Holy Trinity in April 1056.

Traffic was such that the two original basins of the 1770s were expanded to five. As Stourport thrived, Bewdley faded into insignificance.

This view of River House (left), former home to local artist Dendy Sadler, has hardly changed - there is now a flagpole on the front and less greenery.

The top half of this mill tower was demolished, along with the other factory buildings, leaving a stumpy tower, which has been modernised.

The view down the High Street has changed very little, but the increased volume of traffic has brought traffic lights to the junction with the road to Over.

We are standing on the northern shore of the wide and shallow Usk, looking at the grand bridge. It is 17th-century in origin with 13 arches in total, but only 12 are visible from the west.

Opposite the Post Office a precipitous flight of 111 stone steps scales the hill from the town's square to Vernon Place.

This view of the beach shows it in use by both holidaymakers and local fishermen.

Thus the mansions, built earlier, were not ruined and much of the town remains old-fashioned, untouched by modern development.

Brixham enjoyed a prosperity rarely seen during the hard times of Victorian England.

Dawlish began as two discrete hamlets, one inland by the parish church and another on the seashore, but quickly grew as the first visitors arrived to holiday in the late 18th century.

Hope Cove was a simple fishing village cut off from the world until it was 'discovered' in the 20th century.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Hope Cove remains one of the few safe anchorages between the Yealm estuary and Salcombe, several miles to the east.

In its churchyard is the grave of the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold, with an epitaph which reads 'Awake, thou Lute and Harp - I will awake right early'.

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

This busy prospect reveals the pleasing mix of architectural styles inevitable in any prosperous city. On the right is the old post office and the agricultural hall.

Constantine's fine terraces are built with granite dug from one of the many quarries nearby, which also furnished the stone for Waterloo Bridge.

The population in 1801 was 431, but this had dropped to 411 by the time of the 1811 census.

Apparently there was once a plan to develop Ravenscar into a resort that would rival Scarborough, but the scheme failed owing to the unstable geology of the area.