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On the left is a high-quality Tudor house, with arched windows for a shop at the far end. Opposite is the 15th-century Wool Hall, originally the Guild of Our Lady, with an open hall and cross-wings.

Along the Ribble Way, before reaching Gisburn, the river cuts through a deep gorge, perhaps the most spectacular part of its length; but at this point we see the river harnessed.

At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

From the Hanneys the route heads along the A338 road towards Oxford, turning right onto the A415 at Frilford; heading back towards Abingdon, our last stop is in Marcham village.

The Saracen's Head—on the right of this picture—was a famous coaching inn at Great Dunmow, a town associated since 1949 with the Dunmow Flitch ceremony.This had originated at Little Dunmow in 1140

The locks at Fleckney are a part of the descent of the canal from its high point at Foxton into the Soar Valley.

A view of Leeds Mechanics' Institute. This imposing Italianate building, with its lofty round-arched windows, was built by Cuthbert Brodrick in the late 1860s. It later became the Civic Theatre.

The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire

Once a hunting estate for John of Gaunt, the land was purchased in 1803 by Thomas Nicholson, who created the two lakes and the parkland. Mansion House dates from 1826.

A thatcher is at work repairing the thatch around a deep-cut dormer window. The poet Rupert Brooke lived in this picturesque village.

Looking up the High Street from the direction of Silver Street and Oxford Street shows a quiet street scene with little traffic.

Next to St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church (left of photograph) is No 8 Long Street, originally the home of Joseph Needham, a surgeon who was described in his obituary as 'perhaps the most

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.

A busy place at times, considering that imprisonments for being drunk and incapable were running at 300 a month in Glasgow alone.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

The road on the left is Southern Road.

Formerly, a railway line from the station to the slate quarries ran across by the mound (centre).

SS 'Margaret Jones' is loading coal at one of the moveable tips on the vertical wall side opposite the mole on No 1 Dock.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.

Here we have a clearer view of the tall Town Hall building to the right, and beyond it lies the premises of the National Provincial Bank.

Situated to the right, beyond the low white building (later to become the Captain's Wife public house) is Sully Island.

The A1 sweeps north between Moat Mound Recreation Ground and Mill Hill Golf Club, and is little changed since it was built, apart from the introduction of high level lighting standards.