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As payment, the villagers were exempt from market and road tolls.

This view shows the road layout, sign posts and lighting before modernisation. In spite of the cars, it has a village feel to it, with pedestrians and cyclists unaffected by traffic.

There are many fine houses in the generously laid out leafy suburban roads of the New Town.

The road is devoid of both people and traffic – is it early morning? The third house from the right, slightly lower than its neighbours, is now the post office.

This view looks across to the Trowbridge Road - its strong line of Victorian and Edwardian houses is evident going into the distance.

Despite its looks, the Black Horse, Bristol Road, is in fact a fine mock-Tudor building designed by C E Bateman and built in 1929.

A similar view to 59493 shows an improved road surface, the aged persons' bungalows which replaced the Corporation School in about 1960, modern window-frames, and TV aerials.

A similar view to 59493 shows an improved road surface, the aged persons' bungalows which replaced the Corporation School in about 1960, modern window-frames, and TV aerials.

Travelling north along the straight road from Brockenhurst brings the traveller to Lyndhurst, an ideal centre for exploring the northern edges of the great forest.

Coltishall was a prosperous town in the 18th and 19th centuries, when trade was carried by river rather than the road.

Scole is on the old main road south from Norwich.

An open view of the 12th-century church from across Church Road, with neither hedges nor yew trees.

The Dun Cow public house, on the opposite side of the road, has closed, and now houses financial offices. The village has grown quite considerably since the mid 1950s.

As a village, Lanreath's great good fortune is that it is set just off a main road.

Today, traffic thunders along this road.

Slad huddles round the road that runs from Stroud to Birdlip. When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture.

The road has been repaved and kerbed with a pavement on each side - an indication of how busy this thoroughfare has become.

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

Across the road is John Smith's Umbrella Hospital.

This came about because, between 1707 and 1723, the installation of turnpikes on local roads led to such an improvement in their condition that Dunchurch Road became a major thoroughfare.

Now, most of its traffic travels by road, and this delightfully evocative scene is no more.

An old coaching inn on the Emsworth to Harting road, which sold Henty and Constable's ales at the time of the photograph. The Inn is still trading. The scene today is little changed.

Prince of Wales Road was cut through the town in 1862 to provide a fittingly grand route from Thorpe Station. On the right, the old Crown Bank of 1866 became the post office.

It was acquired by J Sainsbury, as their existing premises in South Road were considered to be too small and cramped for the increasing number of people using the store.