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The lower part of this strange structure is Roman; it was the west corner of the Roman fort. The upper part is 14th-century.

As we move further west, we see a part of St Mary's Street with an interesting mix of buildings with alleys leading down to the river front and The Meadows.

Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames,Trent, Severn and Mersey.

On the west side of the green area called the Croft, backing on to the river, are the workhouse and St Gregory's off to the left.

The Causeway leads from the town of Buntingford to the original, and now derelict, parish church of St Bartholomew, Layston.

The church of St Mary was burnt down in 1914 and rebuilt by W Fellowes Prynne. What remained of the old building was the brick west tower dating back to around 1635.

The centre of the village dates from the restoration and repairs begun in 1752 by Lord Crewe's trustees.

Here we see a fine display of weatherboarding along the empty and dusty main street. The faded pub sign is for the Bull Inn.

Berwyn is a lonely spot west of Llangollen, where the half-timbered Chain Bridge Hotel and the station on the old Llangollen-Corwen railway stand beside the River Dee as it enters a small gorge.

The mill was built as a corn mill, and mill workers' cottages grew up along the Tringford Road, complete with an 1870s elementary school.

The village of Hutton-le-Hole lies about one mile west of Lastingham.

New properties and hotels were erected at such a pace that two brickyards were established. The boom did not come, and building stopped.

Jack Rattenbury, the 'Rob Roy of the West', was born at Beer in 1778 and experienced a series of adventures at sea before settling down to a life of smuggling along this wild and lonely

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east.

The Benedictine Priory, founded in 1043, grew to become one of the wealthiest in the midlands, and the sheer bulk of its buildings must have made an imposing sight on the Coventry skyline.The complex

The town centre is in the distance; there are some Edwardian and many modern buildings here.To the north is a pond, and south of the railway line is a water tower resembling a castle.

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

Stevens's Boatyard withdrew to the west parts of Nag's Head Island beyond the bridges, and the Abingdon Bridge Restaurant and Tea Rooms took over their buildings to serve river- borne

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

In May 1822, a spring was discovered about one mile to the south west, and Guisborough climbed aboard the spa town bandwagon.

By this time the wharves have been cleared away to create Victoria Embankment Garden, a more fitting context for the Mother of Parliaments, rebuilt in Gothic style between 1839 and 1860 by Pugin and Sir

Here we see two horse-drawn narrowboats, 'Linnet' and 'Evelyn', at the attractively-sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.

The Star Inn is now more of a brasserie than a pub, and the adjacent post office has been replaced by a television and video shop.