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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.

The village of Radley is best known for its public school founded in 1847. To the east of its campus is the village, as it were at the gates of the school.

The font cover is one of the finest medieval covers in England, with tabernacle work rising in stages to 12 feet in height.

Bancroft was said to be one of the most beautiful streets in England by the artist F L Griggs in the 1890s, and it still shows a certain charm. The building in the distance stands at Moss's Corner.

The ruins make it hard to believe in its history of royal visits; on one of these, the mayor of Norwich arrived with a hundred citizens to present a petition to the king's mother in 1469.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

Just south of Middlesmoor is Lofthouse, the northernmost point of the old Nidd Valley municipal railway.

In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.

This was one of the finest grammar schools in Leicestershire.

If one has time to glance westward, the castle is just visible from the M1 motorway as it heads northward into the Charnwood Forest.

FABLED Tintagel is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur.

The attention of the children and the men is attracted momentarily from the movements of ships and the sea by the novelty of a camera.

It was a coastline that was used to the fierce storms of the Irish Sea, and there were many shipwrecks. There were also many tales of bravery and of daring rescues.

The history of St Hilary's church spans the centuries since the Norman Conquest, and it may even go back to the earliest days of Christianity in Britain.

The village of Norton dates from the Saxon period. One of the earliest references to Norton is a grant by Offa of Mercia to the monastery at St Albans.

With blissful symmetry the horizon here is occupied by Cardiff Castle - the iconic home of the Bute family, facilitators of the modern city and much of its wealth.

This good view of the village pump captures some of the feel of the old village of Ickenham. The road has been widened substantially since this communal water supply was in regular use.

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

Outside it stands a row of watering cans on a sheet of corrugated iron balanced between two barrels. Farther along are more barrels and boxes.

Sad to say, the fine thatched house and barn have not survived; only the row of Rose Cottages stand today as a reminder of the tiny village of Wyddial.

It was originally dedicated to St Gwynllyw, a 5th-century warrior saint who established the first church on this site and is buried here.

As late as 1930, parts of the High Street at Berkhamsted were not fully made up; but with the increase of traffic on this main arterial road, it had one of the first junctions in Hertfordshire to become

We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street. The shot is north-eastwards, along Bridge Street (centre) to the roofs of Coombe Street.

This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.