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A car is turning by the King's Head, with the eccentric Hadlow tower looming over the roofs in the background.

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

From Newstead Abbey the route heads four miles south to Hucknall, which also has Byronic associations: in this church Byron was buried in the family vault after his body had been brought home from Greece

The road leads downwards and eastwards from opposite the Charmouth House Hotel (right), to Hardown Hill and Stonebarrow Hill (centre), where it climbs through Morecombeland.

The cross dates from the 15th century (it was restored in 2003), while Mr Waller, head gardener at Ackworth Park, built the shelter in the late 1930s.

The long, low 17th-century house, right, has fine stone-mullioned and drip- headed windows.

The rest of the church was rebuilt in red brick after the earlier had collapsed in April 1713.

Things came to a head in 1706 when the Excise launched a full investigation of the port over alleged customs avoidance.

Our tour now heads north-east to Greenwich to a much grander building.

The Victorian Barclay's Bank beyond has delightful carved heads over the door and windows. Beyond is No 26, now William Brown, which has the best timber framing in the town.

Lubetkin headed the Tecton architectural practice, and as a result the 13 reinforced concrete structures he designed for Dudley have become known as the Tecton Buildings.

He had come to Epsom in 1906 when he was a boy, arriving with his father Richard from Australia.

Its market is held on Fridays, with the stalls set up between the Victorian pump and the 15th-century market cross. Whitworth's the grocer's is on the left-hand corner.

The West Lodge and Gates are at the head of De Parys Avenue.

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

The main entrance to Lacock Abbey, with its double flight of steps and two tall ogee-headed windows, is an early example of the 18th-century Gothic Revival.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

Situated at the head of the valley of the East Allen, Allenheads was an important centre for the lead-mining industry from the late 18th to the mid 19th century; the mines here produced around 14 per

Virtually all the shops have changed ownership, but the Nags Head (left) is still providing a pint or two.

Not a hatless head to be seen as the open-top tram, en route to Frindsbury across the river, passes the lantern and railings of Eastgate House, threatening conflict with horse-drawn traffic.

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.

At the northern end of the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the river Trent.

The taller stone (7 feet) in known as 'The Other Half Stone' and is a cross shaft with carved decoration but a broken-off head. It may be earlier in date and unrelated to the Doniert stone.