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Near the top of Back Lane stood a lock-up, a pillory and stocks.

One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.

One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.

In this picture, Anton Mill, some distance down-river beside Barlows Lane, can be compared with the Town Mill.

This is a village in two halves, High Town and Low Town, a quarter mile apart.

A finely-composed scene, reflecting the verdant and rural side of this former military town.

The older part of town is surrounded on all sides by water - the River Aire and two canals.

The Cotswold rivers of Coln and Leach join the Thames here, and the town is much influenced by them.

Further down-river, Rooksbury Mill stands on the edge of town as the only other mill still existing.

In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour.

It reinvented itself as a cloth-weaving town, and is today a quaint market town with narrow streets.

A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour.

High Street c1960 On the left is the Town Hall with its unu- sual lead-sheathed clock turret.

The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871-72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

When tiring of the cosmopolitan delights of the town, visitors could climb onto the South Downs and enjoy sublime views.

It was retaken by William de Braose; then, in order to demonstrate his supposed magnanimity to his former enemies, he invited Sytsylt, his son Godfrey and some of their retainers to Abergavenny to

This clock tower monument was erected in 1861 as a memorial to Philip, the eldest son of Sir George and Lady Musgrave of Edenhall, who had died two years earlier in Madrid aged twenty-six.