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By the end of the 20th century the village had become a rural suburb of nearby Lyndhurst.

Once a village, Chandlers Ford has now been swallowed up by the suburbs of nearby Southampton and Eastleigh.

It was then replaced by the present larger building, which was completed in 1894. Paley and Austin of Lancaster were the architects. The church has three fonts.

By the turn of the century the village was growing very quickly, although it was still far from urban sprawl.

In 1909 this property was bought and later demolished by the London City and Midland Bank.

This is not a good place to be caught out by the rising tide, however.

The tranquillity of reed beds and alder carr fringing a quiet backwater near Beccles is being enjoyed by the man relaxing in his wide-bottomed dinghy.

The area was then landscaped and turned into a park, which was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921.

This view of the Thames illustrates Cookham's potential for picnicking and relaxing by the water's edge.

The fine Victorian buildings reflect the increased prosperity brought to the village by the tourist trade, which was just starting to burgeon at the time.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the mile-long Ulverston Canal, England's shortest.

They were built of concrete blocks by the Swindon development company Bradleys on land that was formerly Fuller & Maylam's nursery.

This welcome breathing space was laid out on a derelict site by the railway embankment in 1933.

Although Hynburn Council has not owned any buses since 1996, a new bus station was provided by the Council alongside the market development in 2003.

By the 1950s 700,000,000 tomatoes were imported here and 150,000 passengers transported to the Continent in a typical year.

Today, the church is dwarfed by the town gasometer.

The town's old graveyard behind the Town Hall had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area

Villagers can still get free mineral water from a tap by the entrance to the bottling plant.

Designed by the Welsh architect William Winde, the castle gardens are spectacular.

There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it by

The meeting of two worlds is illustrated by the seine net boats still drawn up on the sand. Fishing in this form was to continue in tandem with tourism until the 1930s.

Formerly Epsom's grandest house, Woodcote Park was bought by the RAC in 1911.

Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination today. People are exploring in the rock pools, centre left.

The monastery founded here in the 7th century by St Felix rivalled Ely until its destruction by the Danes in 870. Even so, it retained its importance, standing on one of the two causeways to Ely.