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We are a little further north-west, and the clock tower disappears from view. The view is little changed since the 1950s, apart from more parked cars.

Dedicated to St Mary and St Stephen, the parish church was rebuilt in the late 1840s; all that is left of an earlier 12th-century structure is the lower part of the west tower.

Once Ludford Parva to the west and Ludford Magna to the east, the settlements are now merged. The post office cum garage is now a house named, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office.

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

Your caption writer chatted here to a villager who told him about an old mutual friend, Dorchestor Rural District Councillor Margaret Kraft, and provided the information that Charminster was one

Here we see Gunnerside Beck rushing into the Swale. Village life is captured in the streets of the village - the Literary Institute (1877) still stands, now the post office and village hall.

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

Seven miles north of Tynemouth, the Hall was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, and completed for Admiral George Delaval in 1707. Over the years the Hall has experienced its share of misfortune.

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

Outward bound from Ramsgate harbour, with a good view on the left of the West Pier and the lighthouse (note the masts of the sailing vessel moored in the harbour).The lighthouse was designed by John

The church was rebuilt in c930, and the nave of the present building is the oldest part still standing.

The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church. Its grandeur recalls the pre-boot and shoe era of the sheep trade, from which the town gained its earlier wealth.

As a result there are numerous terraces of workers' cottages, all in brick and mainly attached to the west side of the village.

After the First World War, there were plans to divide Westley Heights into 231 small plots of land and offer them for development.

St Nicholas's Church was built at the abbey gates for lay abbey staff, tenants and workers, and for travellers to pray for safe onward journeys or who were about to cross the River Thames.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

South-west of the town centre, along the Ampthill Road, on a large site between it and the railway line, the County Schools were built in the 1880s on a grand plan with a massive tower and,

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.

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s. It was given a more ornate entrance building in the 1860s, including the tower.

Reaching Spalding we are in the heart of the bulb-growing country; the surrounding countryside is a glorious carpet of daffodils, tulips and other flowers at different times of the year.

The tiny hamlet of Leigh lies on the east bank of the River Severn, perched on land just high enough to raise it from the floodplain, a few miles north-west of Cheltenham.

This view looks towards the bridge from below West Retford Lock, and beyond is Bettison Wharf, the pantile-roofed late 18th-century canal warehouse.