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The car on the left is leaving Village Way, and the bus is heading for the junction with Croydon Road.

There were nine swing bridges over the canal, seven of them being where major roads crossed. Some crossing points not considered important enough for a bridge were provided with ferries.

This is an attractive approach road into the town centre of Sleaford. The grass verge has gone to make way for a cycle path.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

The photographer is now looking south along Watling Street back to Road Weedon. To the right are the post-war council houses and the filling station in the Globe Hotel car park.

We have turned round, and are now seeing the London Road at the end of the High Street.

Standing at the cross-roads in the centre of the town is the clock tower, which was erected by public subscription in 1876.

The land for the park, off Abbey Road, was purchased in 1904, and work on creating it began in 1907. Here, children are playing on the steps leading down to the bandstand, which has now gone.

The wide road shows the importance of this route to the town.The wide pavements are said to have been constructed to facilitate rope and net mak- ing outside the inhabitants' houses.

Maybe the constant traffic on neighbouring Evesham Road puts people off.

It was decided to demolish numerous properties and to rebuild them further back, thus widening the road and providing parking.

Wild and bleak country, the Trough was the road trodden by the women condemned as Lancashire witches on their way to Lancaster Castle.

In the days of horse-drawn travel, Fairford was an important coaching town that straddled the important road leading to the capital from the south-west.

This small village is on the busy Diss to Thetford road. It has a number of attractive buildings of knapped flint - the garage is a prime example.

A high-level road bridge eventually replaced it.

The hotel is on the site of the medieval monastery of Weybridge, a small house of canons providing hospitality for travellers between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, both by road and by river.

Boscastle's steep, narrow roads with their tricky hairpins have reduced the impact of development; Old Hill looks much the same today as it did in 1906.

Here we see the main road which passes through Skelton, with the war memorial sited in a triangular lawn to the right.

We are looking over Weston Bay and the sands from near the Grand Pier; beyond we can see (from left to right) Knightstone Harbour, Glentworth Bay and Birnbeck and Knightstone Roads, with the spire of Holy

Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon.

The station itself is a vast open space without the approach road and the marked bays for the cars, buses and lorries of today.

This unprepossessing village, now the home of a major holiday theme park, straddles the main trunk road that bisects the county. It suffers the full impact of constant traffic.

Frogmore Creek makes an eastward journey from the Kingsbridge estuary, narrowing by the medieval road bridge.

Also visible: the harbour line of the M & G N Railway that linked the harbour to the goods yard off Leverington Road, and the line to Sutton Bridge.