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The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discov- eries in the 1910s.

The first mail coach from London reached here on 16 October 1789 -superseded a century later by the railway.

Note the hotel carriage by the entrance, the various horse-drawn conveyances and also the people on the hotel balcony. The building with the colonnaded frontage was the Masonic Hall.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

It is said that it was Columba himself who caused the battle: he was accused by the High King of taking a psalter without permission, so Columba appealed to his clan for help in clearing his name, and

By the 1920s shipbuilding had declined, and in the years since Kippford has become a popular yachting centre, its harbour and channel busy with visiting boats in the summer months.

In 1868 the Penarth Hotel, designed by C E Bernard, was built by the Taff Vale Railway Company, and later became the Headlands School.

If you do it properly, both forward motion and steering is provided by the pole.

Taken long before the days of amusement arcades and the bandstand, this photograph shows that Pier Road and the Crag consisted solely of dwelling houses, probably occupied mainly by the fishing community

The house occupied by the courageous window-cleaner (centre) bears a 1716 datestone, and its neighbour (then, as now, housing the Royal Air Force Association) a datestone for 1663.

On the right can be seen gravestones in the churchyard of St Mary's church; it has a mostly medieval tower, but the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1855, paid for by the Broadwood family.

In 1936 Barton's, seed merchants, moved here, but were eventually bought out by the Delbridge family; grandfather, son and grandson all served in the shop. It has now become Kentucky Fried Chicken.

This, in 1891, was replaced by the current swing bridge which we see in the photograph. For the next one hundred years, it carried all road transport serving the Isle of Thanet.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

The white fronted Burton's at the far end is in the up-to-the-minute Art Deco style favoured by the tailoring company all over the country.

Newstead was inherited by the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet Lord Byron in 1798 as a virtual ruin, and he sold it in 1817.

Long Row leads westwards uphill into Chapel Bar, now truncated by the Maid Marian Way roundabout junction with Derby Road.

Beyond them, the tall building is the Victoria Working Men's Club, built in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and funded by the ubiquitous Baron Rothschild of Waddesdon.

The church building is now used by the charity Christian Concern, and the building is actually used as a centre for second-hand furniture. It is known as St Paul's Centre.

By the chapel is this village that the Gregs built for their workers.

Off the north side of the High Street, the buildings are encroachments on the market place; Bletchingley had been a borough by the 13th century.

East from Claygate and across the Hogsmill river valley, the route reaches Ewell, now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road.

Now demolished, its site is occupied by the modern Upper Reaches Hotel.

The Trinity Methodist Church was complemented by the church hall, dated 1873. Beyond is Trinity House, the minister's house, probably also by Woodman.