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Ashford, situated in the south-west corner of the county, takes its name from an ancient river crossing, the Exeford of the Domesday Book.

Most of the Wakes Week holiday-makers provided their own food, which was then cooked for them by the landlady; each room would have its own food locker in the dining room.

The town holds an annual Dickens festival when people dress up in Victorian costumes and listen to readings from Dickens's books.

As well as a theatre, there was a library of rare Shakespearean books, and the view from the tower was highly recommended.

A pavilion, described as being 'handsome and commodious' in a 1907 guide book, was added later.

Surviving accounts books for 1458-61, 1467-68, 1476-77, 1500 and 1509 show that the Whickham mines were contributing considerable revenues to the bishop.

It contained a reading room and a well-stocked library of over 3,000 books. Later the police station was added on the left; it was demolished to accommodate the new Horsforth library.

The Volunteer Arms remains much the same, but the charmingly named Blue Bell has fallen victim to the era of theme pubs, and is now known as Cook's Bar.

Historian Arthur Mee, in his book 'The King's England - Oxfordshire,' says that 'if our England is a garden Great Tew is one of its rare plots...never anything but beautiful'.

The two gentlemen in the picture are enjoying a lazy afternoon's fishing, whilst their female companion appears to be absorbed in a book and utterly oblivious to our photographer.

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. The Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the Hall grounds.

Corfe Mullen had a mill as long ago as the Domesday Book; it retained its independence until well into the 20th century, when its great neighbour Poole began to creep out towards it.

In the Domesday Book its name is recorded as Mortona, and it was later known as Mor Tun; locals still refer to it as Moreton. Prominent on the horizon (right) are Haytor and Low Man.

The two-masted vessel in the centre of the harbour is typical of the many ketches that worked the coast - sturdy, no- nonsense boats which carried everything from cooking pots to coal

When this picture was taken, the Steps had longs enjoyed a reputation as the place to go for antiques or to seek out old books.

Margaret Dobson's book 'Bradford Voices' has a picture of the pre-stressed concrete sections being lowered into place in October 1962.

Looking eastwards along the river Bure, this photograph shows a wide range of sailing and motor boats.

Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.

A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

A guide book for 1886 states that the village had no special feature of interest to the tourist, though its situation was pleasant and that the church with its stumpy spire was charmingly placed amid a

Milk churns are - of course - consigned to the history books.

A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

So reads a local guide book of 1924 - and the words are as apt now as they were then.

In Station Road you can book a motorboat or cruiser, and if you are a land-lubber or onlooker you could enjoy a meal in one of the many restaurants.