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The top of the High Street was known officially as Devonshire Place, but the locals always called it Devonshire Square, even though it only had three sides.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

St Katharine was the patron saint of millers, saddlers, wheelwrights and teachers - all trades and professions which appropriately flourished in Ickleford.

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

This impressive flight of sixteen locks, regarded as the finest in Britain, is also known as 'the Staircase'. This photograph was taken from Marsh Lane in Rowde.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

The 15th-century building in the foreground has had a variety of uses, including that of a public house named The Cricketers which ran from the mid 19th century until its closure in 1909.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

Market Street was notorious for traffic congestion even in the 1880s.

On the left bank is the single track Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway, which opened as a broad gauge line in April 1867 and was worked by the Bristol & Exeter Railway.

The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill.

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

Tregaron is a small nucleated town, probably based on a Welsh maerdref where the lord held court. It grew rapidly during the early 19th century, when it became a popular meeting place for drovers.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

In 1910 the Borough of Wallasey was formed. This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.

The Egremont ferry started in 1835 from a small pier, and was taken over by Wallasey Corporation in 1862.

From the modern, bustling entertainment of Drusilla's Zoo Park we finish this chapter in Wilmington, on the east side of the Cuckmere River.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is said to be the world's smallest public railway service.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.