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Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s).

Moving on north from Dunsfold, we come to Hascombe, a most attractive and tranquil village set in a curving wooded valley in the greensand hills.

The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.

This chapel was opened in April 1890 at the cost of £2,000 with seating for 600 people.

S R Lovatt, on the right, had originally specialised in cheese and in other provisions such as bacon and butter, but as its window display indicates it sold general groceries as well.

At one time, elegant Victorian terraced houses, which were built between l835 and l857, graced the Parade. Apart from the last two terraced houses, these were demolished in the 1930s.

We are looking eastwards from the blocked mouth of the River Char, which ends its journey to the sea by having to break through a ridge of shingle (right).

Later photographs from the 1950s show no change to the building apart from the addition of a hanging sign at the front, and the replacement of the gas lamp-post with an electric, concrete one.

This Norman stronghold was built on a natural mound as an earth and timber castle in the 12th century. The massive stone keep dates from a century later.

The first castle at Lancaster was built by Roger de Poitou, though the massive stone keep was added about 1170.

'Yes', said Mother, 'you can play on the beach, but keep your shirt, tie and hat on - and your jacket'.

With the spire of St Dunstan's dominating the background, the newly opened public library in Church Road, designed by Masters & Pereira, is visible behind the war memorial.

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.

This village at the entrance to the Trough of Bowland has officially been declared the nearest village to the centre of the British Isles. A telephone box marks the spot.

Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead. Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house.

In the 1950s, part of the building was used as overflow classrooms for the Abbey School, which at that time provided all primary education for the town.

St Michael's Church is unique in the county in having the base of the tower open on three sides. There is a picture with the arches walled up, but they were unblocked in the mid 1800s.

Built to link the Promenade to the attractions of Princes Park, the doubly-named bridge rests on two artificial islands in the Marine Lake.

This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village.

The basic fabric of the church can be no later than the end of the Early English period, around 1300. The elegant five-bay north and south arcades are witness to this date.

The frontage of the Angel Hotel is hidden by a tree at the centre of the photograph. To the far left is Strange's Central Garage with a petrol pump outside.

The gatehouse has distinctive diaper brick patterning and the arms of Bishop John Russel (1480-94).

Redevelopment in the 1970s has swept away many of the buildings on the west side of Crib Street.

Selsley was, until 1863, a part of Kings Stanley ecclesiastical parish. The church's design is based on one at Marlengo in the Tyrol, and has important glass from the workshops of William Morris.