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Situated by the side of the main road through Alford, the church of St Wilfrid is built mainly of Lincolnshire green stone, which does not wear too well.

The parade of shops (left) proclaims that a once quiet seaside village is becoming a busy township - we can see Ellwood's, the Midland Bank, a chemist, and a newsagent and tobacconist.

In the background are the romantic ruins of the Augustinian priory, and to the right are the tumbling waters of the River Wharfe.

Donkeys are awaiting the arrival of the day's holidaymakers on the beach. A fisherwoman in a tall hat stands behind the donkey boys and their mounts.

On the horizon we can see the outline of the 12th-century church of Llangwyfan and the circular sea-wall of its cemetery.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Moving south-west, the tour reaches East Harting, a hamlet east of South Harting, the main village with the parish church.

The name of this lane, which runs north from the junction of High Street and Lewes Road, refers to Sackville College.

Here we see the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and

Young day-trippers on the beach are preparing to enjoy a traditional ride on one of the six donkeys retained here for the purpose during the summer months.

There are many monuments in the church and in the graveyard to famous people, including Sir Thomas Fleming, who was the Lord Chief Justice who authorised the execution of Guy Fawkes, and Admiral Lord Hawke

but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added in 1832, after the collapse of

The house on the left, occupied by R W Fayers & Son, builders, was the home of Sir John Turner, who built The Custom House.

The next views are of the residential roads laid out to the east of Brighton Road.

The hamlet of Mill End, about a mile west of the centre of Rickmansworth, grew up along the main road to Uxbridge to serve a watermill and factories.

This architecture is not exciting, but very user-friendly: a corner shop with others adjacent, each with their good timber fronts, and on the opposite side of the road The Bell pub, making up a standard

High Street 1918 A view of Seaview's High Street during the final summer of the First World War.The lady on the right demonstrates the changing fashions caused by the shortage of materials.

Also known as the Flimston or Elegug Stacks (Elegug is derived from the Welsh word for guillemot), these two massive pillars are comprised of limestone.

On the right of this photograph can be seen Swanage Pier, built originally to facilitate the steamer trade to neighbouring resorts and the shipment of the much-prized Purbeck stone.

The Globe at Swanage was carved from a great mass of stone, ten feet in diameter and forty tons in weight.

Lying between Stroud and Nailsworth, the parish includes the villages of North and South Woodchester.

A wide range of architectural periods is represented in Astwood Bank, though Victorian buildings are particularly numerous. The 1960s brought a number of new developments, of which this is typical.

Denny End is named after the abbey that was re-sited in 1342 from the present church to a spur of land linked to Waterbeach by a causeway.

The old market cross still stands by the gate to the parish church of St Alkelda at Giggleswick, in the heart of Craven limestone country.