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The gabled and bay-windowed houses beyond were demolished a few years ago for the inner relief road. Sussex Towns From Chichester to Uckfield

These cottages, south of the junction with Hurst Road and built as a 15th-century hall and cross wing house by a prosperous farmer, had by 1907 been divided into four small cottages and given Victorian

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

The pretty ironstone village, once a market town, descends the lower slopes of the ridge along the Uppingham Road.

The road has not changed, and the route into the Market Place is still the same; however, as in most of these photographs, the telegraph poles have long since gone.

Revesby is an estate village, and the Estate Office on is the nearby A153 main road. The village was laid out in the 1850s around a huge green.

The High Street is a dead end now, cut off by modern roads.

A host of street lamps, which were erected in late 1890, chase their way down the road. The closest is the lamp outside Frederick Wright's County Cigar Store.

It is a town with sprawling suburbs and a centre marred by ring roads and the enormous Four Seasons Shopping Centre (1972-76), which demolished much of the northern part of the old town.

We return up London Road to the Wheat Sheaf and turn right into New Street, formerly called Lichfield Street, which takes us back to the Market Place.

It is now a one-way street - the far end was demolished for the inner relief road. Ye Olde Harrow Inn back entrance has a bacon shop on the left.

Going north to the Godstone to Reigate road, that part of the A25 that runs along the greensand ridge south of the North Downs, we reach the village of Bletchingley.

This view captures well the disparate suburban nature of Cobham's High Street before we reach the most attractive River Hill and Mill Road, which stretch along the banks of the River Mole

Western Cross is the junction of the High Street, Alton Road, Dunleys Hill and West Street.

The boot sign halfway up the road on the right is the Golden Boot, the premises of Fred Dugdale, whose shop was equipped with ' a private fitting room for ladies'.

with its cafes, public houses and antiques shops.There is a quaint, old-world feel to this part of the town.At one time many of these buildings were in danger of demolition to make way for a new road

We can see one of their shops on the opposite side of the road close to the unfortunate concrete lamp standard.

To the far left is the old grammar school in Croston Road erected in 1756, which became an arts centre.

Since renamed St Andrew's Road, here we are looking south-westwards towards Bridport. The nationally-known 20th-century author and playwright Thomas Ridley Sharpe moved here from Cambridge in 1978.

This pretty scene with its unmetalled road and air of tranquillity could almost prevail in modern Totternhoe.

Three carefully posed children standing on one side of the road contrast with two other boys stretched out on the opposite verge.

In 1644, Father John Duckett was unfortunate enough to be arrested while on the road between Wolsingham and Tow Law. Duckett was tried and executed.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

The library is to be found in Boltro Road, which leads off Muster Green towards the railway station.