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On the right is the creeper-clad Bridge House, long gone, its site now occupied by a large Texaco garage.

The area round the medieval church is unspoilt; besides the church, which has a very recent eastern extension, there is a Victorian school and a fine 18th-century Manor House near the river.

Somersetshire Buildings can be seen on the left beyond more standard three-bay Palladian houses.

In 1949 the local authority, Billericay Urban District Council, was in despair; it was trying to cope with its own housing problems, as well as the task of dealing with 78 miles of unmade roads

The half-timbered manor house of Blakesley Hall dates from 1575.

When the town was first laid out it was to be an exclusive place, but within a few years, cheap, terraced houses had been built and Atherton's vision was in tatters.

The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment

The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

On the left, the tea tent was run by the Castle Coffee House, based in Castle Street. To the right is a small shed advertising portraits 'painted and finished while you wait'.

Its typical Kentish architecture of weatherboarded houses is complemented by the Union Mill, the largest working windmill in England.

Fifty years earlier, before the railway increased commercial trade to the already prosperous spa town, all these premises were private houses.

On the left is the now sadly demolished Parade, a splendid Gothic construction which, with its intricately patterned brickwork, housed a number of prominent businesses and shops.

Apart from one white terrace, the hillside above the fishing village has since been fully developed for housing.

The stack dwarfs a beam engine house to the right, while less substantial buildings are already ruinous. Today the stack stands alone.

North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.

These half-timbered houses, overlooked by the 15th-century church of St Mary the Virgin, were once homes for local tradesmen from the Jacobean Chilham Castle estate.

The northern part was bought by a consortium of businessmen who built houses overlooking it. Chantry Park is known as Moseley Park today, and is accessible only to keyholders.

The same materials have been used for an adjacent school, the schoolmaster's house and the vicarage, and together they form a harmonious group.

caravanning grew in popularity during the 1950s, many small sites began to compete with the already established holiday camps, providing facilities, shops and often entertainment in a purpose built club-house

Further on is the 18th-century red brick Arnott House. Between them the first-floor windows are about to be cleaned. St Mary's rectory is on the right.

Ahead are the Station House, the theatre, shipyards, and cranes on the dock.

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car. On the right is a former 16th-century pub with a decorative Victorian front.

This view from the bridge over the Bradwell Brook looks north up the main village street, with the Bridge House Café and Pearce's ice cream shop on the right - Bradwell is famous for its home-made ice