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This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

The lock is only accessible by water, for it is cut off from Whitchurch by a backwater and house gardens: even the Thames Path misses the river here, only going through the churchyard.

To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant.

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring.

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring.

Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was.

The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.

Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

In the 1950s, Great British holidays enjoyed a revival.

The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.

View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge.

The County Council had been buying parcels of land in this area since the 1930s, in an attempt to preserve the native trees.

With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'

Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.

As the industrialisation of weaving gathered pace, the town was eventually reached by the railway in July 1848.

The village also has a windmill, which at 80 feet is the tallest windmill to have been built on The Wirral.

The magnificent topiary gardens of Levens Hall, near Kendal, were laid out by the King's gardener Beaumont, who trained at Versailles, in 1692.

This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

The 188 acres of Healey Dell became a Nature Reserve in 1976.