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There are Rows on both sides of Watergate Street.

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.

A small town at the gateway to Wales, close to the English border and Offa's Dyke, Chirk is noted both for its castle, in continuous occupation from the 13th century, and its position at the entrance to the

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

To the east there is an outlying stone, over which the sun rises at the spring and autumn equinoxes.

Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

The Bible tells us that we should build our houses on rock and not sand – and all the oldest cottages in Burton sit perched on outcrops of sandstone.

The black and white building at the dar side of the street is the Victoria Jubilee Hall, erected in 1887; today it also has a clock to celebrate another jubilee, that of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.

He survived only another two years.

Another change is The New Inn, since renamed The Little Owl after a Gold Cup winning racehorse.

Llanrhystud is overlooked by an Iron Age fort, just out of view on the left, which was later occupied by Welsh and Norman earth and timber castles.

Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.

The town's fine Market House dates from 1698; it rests on an arcade of pillars that are unusual in that they are made of stone on the outside, and timber on the inside.

Linwood lies over to the western edge of the New Forest, and is surrounded by woodland, heath and plain - as this picture suggests.

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.

The barons were destroyed, and both Simon de Montfort and his son were among the dead. Shortly afterwards Henley was sacked and burnt.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches built with the local limestone. It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border.

The roofed building has been replaced by the Ayscoughfee Café, and the gardens include an impressive war memorial to Spalding's dead of both wars.

The Great India and China Tea Company, an 1880s building (on the left) is now, aptly, the Mocha Berry Cafe‚ while the haberdashers on the right is now The Grafton Cafe; both establishments reflect the

The earliest parts of the north nave date from c1100, and another nave and chancel were constructed in the 14th century. The tower dates from the 15th century, and the vestry from the 16th century.

North from the Market Place, the High Street curves away past The Woolpack, now rendered and roughcast.

Another tree known as the Young Oak was planted nearby in 1863.