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The town`s impressive Chinese Bridge was built in 1827 - the name reflects the design of the bridge. It links Post Street to the riverside walk on the west side of the Ouse.

The new A1 bisected the town of Ferrybridge after 1967.

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

Here we can see a closer view of the railway line, which runs parallel to the river virtually all the way to Carmarthen.

The four-storey round tower in the distance at the south-east angle, strongly built, remains today in perhaps the best state of preservation of all the castle buildings.

Once known as 'Coveshoo', Cliffe was a meeting place for the Great Councils of Kent in Saxon times.

Balderton Gate is the next turning south-east off Cartergate. Here we have a glimpse of the 237 feet high spire of St Mary Magdalene's.

This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line. Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

Another view of the imposing white Congregational church which serves both Ansdell and Fairhaven. A vintage tram makes its way down Clifton Drive to Lytham St Anne's.

At the far east end, behind the sanctuary, Henry VII's chapel was begun in 1503 as a rebuilding of the Lady Chapel to take Henry VI's body.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

Clifford's Tower was built by Henry III; it occupies the site of William the Conqueror's motte and bailey destroyed by the Danes in 1069.

At this point the River Medway ceases to be tidal; the electrical sluice gates here, thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep, are an essential part of the flood control scheme of the Medway Valley.

Even in the mid-fifties, Edenbridge retained some of its atmosphere as a small agricultural town, strung out along the Roman road which reached out across the Weald from Lewes to London.

Said to derive its name from a local family, the area basically occupies a stretch of Edgware Road about a mile south of Edgware.

Wherwell is one of Hampshire's prettiest villages. By the time this photograph was taken, the local railway had been in use for 16 years.

In the 12th century Alresford was a prosperous community - so much so that it was later considered one of England's most important wool markets.

Beyond the gates, the Ewell Road extends onwards to the centre of Cheam village.

The Avenue leads round to Normanby Road, which recalls the landowners of the nearby Normanby Hall and Estate.

These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland.

We can see the 19th-century church of St Luke in the background amidst the trees.

It is thought that the Bishops of Llandaff were resident in Mathern as early as the 14th century; they eventually left in 1763.

This is an unusual view of St Andrew`s Church, taken from the graveyard looking west towards the main road.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield