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A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun. The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station. The 15th-century church is on the hillside.

Down at Church End there is another more well-known and photographed pond; it and the 13th-century parish church are to the left of the War Memorial.

This view is taken looking north- west along Benyon Road towards the junction of Pound Street and Carshalton Road. The high brick wall in the distance belongs to Carshalton House.

As we head north, Warton Crag is the first sign of the Lake District with its ancient limestone rocks.

On the B1368 road a mile or so north of Braughing stands the small community of Hay Street.

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

Situated on the main coast road, this public house is extremely convenient for tourists and the villagers.

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

We are not sure when it became the 'local', but it is thought that Mr Romer Williams, whose name it preserves, was the resident of Newnham Hall for the first decades of the 20th century.

The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually

The cottages were threatened with destruction shortly after this photograph was taken, but popular opinion prevailed and they were saved.

The old Tudor timber-framed cottage formerly stood slightly further to the south, before being purchased by Epsom Rural Council in 1922 when it was dismantled and transferred to this present site.

The name 'Croston' means 'town with a cross'.

The village has grown and developed in the shadow of Ascot racecourse, which occupies an elevated position overlooking the surrounding area.

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

In its heyday this was a huge village with shops of every description and five prosperous inns; there was even a beer house run by Matthew Austin.

Inside the church is a fine memorial to Sir John Leigh, who died in 1629. His nine-month-old grandson died before Sir John could be buried.

Harcourt is taken from Harcourt in Normandy, and from Roger de Harewecurt, who held the village in 1202.

In the main, this is a large red-brick village, but a few thatched stone cottages remain, as in the photograph - note its superb hedges and simple topiary.

Situated six miles north-west of Barnard Castle, Romaldkirk in 1898 was not in fact in County Durham but in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

This sea front was hard to negotiate, despite all the signs of a developing resort.

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

This unspoiled row of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses facing onto the church was built and owned mainly by small farmers and tradesmen, who formed the backbone of the rural affluent society

Holme is a hamlet on the east bank of the Trent slightly north of Winthorpe. The church was rebuilt in 1485 by John Barton of Calais.