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& Crown and the Whitehorse Hotel on the right were among the numerous inns which made this small town one of Hertfordshire's premier coaching centres, thanks to its position on the Great North Road

The first burial in the churchyard was in 1729; until then coffins were strapped to pack horses and taken by the 'corpse road' over Mardale Common for burial at Shap.

The small village of Trelleck on the Chepstow to Monmouth road is often remarked upon for having such a large church.

At the road junction is the Black Lion, rebuilt in 1839, and a grocer's known as Top Shop. The Tudor houses have been subdivided to provide houses for the poorer members of the village.

Stanmore, a once picturesque village, has now lost much of its character, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

These small boys and girls can have had no idea how these quiet roads, with their trim family homes, would have been ravaged within the coming century by the effects of modern development.

The early 1830s were the boom years for the stagecoach industry, with around 3500 scheduled runs taking to the roads every day.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

Since the 1950s, the cottages have been restored and a road now cuts close to them.

Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, is this large factory which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s.

Along the Sywell Road, from the 1950s on, closes of expensive houses were built within the park boundary, retaining many of the specimen trees.

Standing on the north-west side of Moat Road, this was an Anglican school for girls, run by St Margaret's Convent.

It is fortunate to be bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen.

This road up from the beach was first started at the time that George Hudson bought the West Cliff Estate in the 1850s, and it got the name from the strategic pass important in the Afghan wars, which

Even so, it is possible to linger in the middle of the road - not a pastime to be indulged in on summer days in the 21st century.

The hump in the road by the Plough and Dial is the bridge, which gives the street its name. On the right is Sale's garage, with a Pratt's petrol pump delivering Shell fuel.

A tram rattles across the old road bridge bound for Grangetown. The 236ft single span cast-iron bridge was designed by Thomas Paine, author of 'The Rights of Man'.

Across the road were two others. The Bedford bus would leave from here for Amport. Just visible on the right, Henly's garage was redeveloped in 1982 for Safeway.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

This famous resort on the Holyhead road, in the narrow, deeply-glaciated valley of the river Conwy, became popular when it was reached by the railway in Victorian times.

The foreground field is now housing, Honey Banks and Hampden Road, with Bank Farm in the dip below. Beyond is the clocktower at the centre of the town.

This is one of the ponds, Banks Pond, on the main east-west road through the village; the scene is relatively unchanged, although out of view to the left is now a parade of 1960s shops.

Known locally as 'the church on the roundabout', Trinity Church stands on its own island at the interchange of Stallard Street, Wingfield Road and Newtown.