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Farningham is just a short distance from Eynsford, set at another pretty crossing of the Darent between ridges of chalk hills.

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up

Named for Lulworth Castle, over the hill at East Lulworth, the old hostelry at West Lulworth is an 18th- century thatched building behind a neat wooden fence.

Straddling an unclassified road between Hayfield and Marple, the village of Mellor is noted for its church, which is dedicated to St Thomas.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

The church of St Margaret has Norman walling and windows. Hawksfold was the home of Anthony Salvin, an eminent architect.

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

Today, of course, it has Butlins Holiday Camp to support its holiday trade.

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

Behind the photographer is the 1597 water conduit, while in the distance is the stone front of the Angel Hotel.

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales. All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

The church of St Margaret has Norman walling and windows.

The Victorian villas on the Edge can clearly be seen at the end of the road and across the field, then known as Lifeless Moss.

Very much an architectural relic of a former age, including its clock tower, the bus station looks very similar today, except that the high-level balcony on the left has gone.

Hat manufacturers and accessory wholesalers occupy most of the buildings shown in this reverse view to 39699 (page 22).

This featureless wave of suburbia grew up in the 1930s to cover the fields between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Pinner.

Now known as Truro School, the college was founded on the hill overlooking the city 10 years before this photograph was taken, 'affording a thorough English education at a moderate cost' for up to 120

There was a settlement on this site in prehistoric times, but the first documentary reference to 'Bramwice' was in 1168. The name referred to the wild broom which grew here.

Beacon Hill, in the distance, was in the chain of warning beacons established when French and later Spanish invasions were feared in the 16th century.

Hansom cabs line up on Senate House Hill, alongside the elegant classically styled Senate House, the 'Parliament' building for the University.

On the left is Barclays Bank, next to the Rose and Crown, which was gutted by fire in 1969.

This is a closer view of the Church of St Thomas. One might almost call it a utility building.