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On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Claygate lies southwards beyond the A3 Kingston and Esher by-pass, and into the preserved countryside of the Green Belt.

This is the village centre, and it holds very special memories for the author.

The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

The plastered section of this long building was known as Webbs Cottages, and the southern range, Portsmouth Cottages. The first one of the latter was the Reading Room and Club.

Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s

Hardly any changes have occurred here; the custodians of Norton's past are determined to protect it for future generations. Norton was lucky in that it escaped the worst ravages of industry.

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

On the west side of the green area called the Croft, backing on to the river, are the workhouse and St Gregory's off to the left.

By the time the castle was finished in around 1200, Richmond had grown in size; a market has been held here since 1155.

Back to the west of Blindley Heath the route reaches Outwood, a hamlet on the edge of heath and woodland, some of it owned by the National Trust.

This attractive view is little changed today, except that the Green, predictably, is kept close-mown now, and woe betide any daisy that shows its head.

We see the Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.

We see the Green from the far side.

This scene is still instantly recognisable from the green, where seats encircle a shade giving tree.

Centre left at No 33 is the Green Dragon, a cider house, which closed in the late 1960s.

This charming post office is still here, and overlooks the green and the beck.

This attractive group, which makes the most of the possibilities of tile-hanging walls, is on the Petworth Road just south-west of the Green.

A 17th-century house built of ironstone and Collyweston slates, facing the large green but spoilt by an odd door.

This was the site of much activity, including horse fairs, which continued regularly until the mid-20th century. The Green is today architecturally unchanged from this photograph.

To the west of Jervaulx lies this pretty village, nestling around the spacious green.