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Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape

Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke. To the right are the walls and gate piers of the Methodist Church built in 1874.

We are looking north down the High Street towards its division into East and West streets.

Accessed from both Main Street behind and from Church Road, the A612, behind the camera, the Wheatsheaf pub still thrives.

Although it was a one-way street for traffic, in this photograph Clumber Street has the appearance of being a precinct, with shoppers walking in the road.

This is the High Street, the main street in Kimbolton. The George Hotel is now a private house. The garage beyond it, with a fake timber-framed frontage, has long gone.

This busy street scene is nowadays replaced by occasional delivery vans and taxis, because the lower half of Church Street has been closed to through traffic.

Broadgate was always the hub around which Coventry revolved, and Hertford Street was once one of the main streets running into it, though it was constructed only in 1912.

The road system around the Square is beginning to be changed, with one side of the street now closed to regular traffic.

Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.

The end of the High Street lies in the centre, and Cliff House stands just out of view on the right.

The High Street, running south to north, was wide enough for two carriages to pass in times gone by.

The two buildings dominating this view of the east side of Foregate Street have both been converted to other purposes.

Mosley Street was named in honour of Sir Nicholas Mosley, a former Lord of the Manor of Manchester. The other fine buildings along the street include the Portico Library and St Peter's Church.

Here Parliament Street runs into the spacious thoroughfare of Whitehall which rushes onwards to join Trafalgar Square. On the extreme left is the diminutive gabled roof of the Horse Guards.

This photograph of Loftus High Street shows the raised ground to the right known as the 'embankment'.

Its main broad street winds gracefully round towards the western reaches of the town. This view of the top of the High Street was taken from St Lawrence's church.

Weather-boarded and glass shop fronts line this Edwardian street, which boasts a jeweller's, a draper's and silk mercer's named Stokes & Sons, and a trader by the name of J F Gammon.

The tightly-packed shops in Sedbergh's Main Street have not changed much since this photograph was taken.

Henley is a fine example of a medieval settlement developing in linear fashion along a highway, as this photograph demonstrates - though it tells only part of the story, for the High Street is

The grid-like pattern of the streets west of Laindon High Road preserves the layout of some of the early plotland estates.

We are looking up Lime Street from its junction with Castle Street; Coleridge's Cottage can be seen at the end on the left.

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The last days of the corner of Sankey Street and Horsemarket Street are approaching.