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Apart from the electricity poles, the only clues to this scene being in the 20th century are the ubiquitous signs for Walls, Brooke Bond Tea and Woodbines, which probably now stir many an early memory

Abbotts Ann takes its name from the Pillhill brook, originally the Anna or Ann stream.

The Town Hall was built in 1618, the gift of Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the

Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.

Tucked away among trees by Pill Hill Brook, Monxton Church, with its shingle-faced belfry and broach spire perched on the gable, was rebuilt in early Victorian times.

The gardens are laid out on a site that slopes gently down towards Rope Walk and The Brook, offering a pleasant place in the centre of town in which to stroll or sit, and perhaps recover

Little Ann Village C1955 Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton.

On the ridge nearby is the source of the River Frome - that beautiful Dorset brook that crosses nearly forty miles of the county before reaching the sea.

This view looks towards the brook from behind the chestnut tree we can see to the left in No C433010.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones. In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.

Brook Street c1955 Bensington is Benson's proper name; it was once an ancient British city. A battle was fought here in 572 AD between the West Saxons and the Britons.

So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not. It burned down in 1928.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones.

A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

It was created on the site of an 18th-century house with 18 acres of private parkland by Barbourne Brook.

Oakham CC have a fine ground at the Lime Kilns Field, Brooke Road, which was extended to county size.

The long line of cottages in Winkle Street overlooks a delightful babbling brook.

Herrington's window (right) is a treasure-trove of 1960s grocery products: Lyons Swiss Rolls, Brooke Bond Tea, Woodbines, and Bev. It later became the NatWest Bank.

The long line of cottages in Winkle Street overlooks a delightful babbling brook.

The old coaching inn, half way down Brook Street on the left, had the unusual name of the Farmer's Man. It has since closed, and is now called Farmers Man Cottage.

We are standing on the small brick-parapeted bridge over the Walthambury Brook.