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Only the medieval west tower and the Victorian south porch survived. The church was rebuilt by Bernard Miller, who made no attempt to recreate the style of the original.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

This area was once known as South Walk. It was bought in 1879 by William Rock, a son of the town who had made his fortune in London before returning home.

This crowded region south of the river was once the heart of London cockney life.

The traffic-free minor road meanders between drystone walls through the dale south towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

Milton Malsor is a charming, typically English village to the south of Northampton and the M1. This picture shows the village post office, delightfully housed in a picturesque thatched cottage.

Much of south-west England was administered from here. It revived as a Saxon settlement, but it did not become prominent again until the emergence of the wool trade.

In the distance to the north, earlier housing estates, mostly Pre-War and 1950s, can be seen - the Development Corporation plans mainly expanded the town to the south and north-east.

Stanwick is a village two miles south-west of Raunds. In 1960 Phipps was taken over by the giant Watney-Mann brewery, which retained the Phipps name but introduced the lettering shown here.

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

He put in the vivid coloured tiles on the east wall, and he is responsible for the Perpendicular south aisle and west end. The outline of a chapel remains in the east side walls.

Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse.

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Ogmore lies two miles to the south-west of Bridgend.

The rest of the house and the south wing were badly damaged in a fire in 1881, but they were rebuilt in the same style three years later.

Inside is a stone-lined gallery some 20ft long, with two side chambers leading off on the south side. A matching pair on the north side has long since collapsed.

Further south-east, the old village of Walton suffered greatly in the 1960s. The buildings on the left went to accommodate a dual-carriageway road widening.

These caves, in the south face of Chudleigh Rock, were used in prehistoric times.

The Long Man of Wilmington stands on the northern slope of the South Downs, today marked out in white bricks. Who he is and when he was originally cut into the downland turf is not known.

But river traffic at this point has now been greatly increased with the opening of the vast Penton Hook Marina in a flooded gravel pit on the south bank, which is accessed from just below this lock.