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The most surprising feature of this busy shopping scene is the complete lack of any vehicles.

The Cross in Geddington's village centre was built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I.

The scout hut, agricultural vehicle and long forgotten signboard are features of the left-hand side of High Road looking towards Elmore Pond.

Much of Theale High Street remains unchanged, though it is unlikely that we would find this part of the village free of traffic today.

Behind the tree, the Big Schoolroom (1863) blends very well with the Tercentenary School House (1889) to form a quadrangle reminiscent of Oxbridge.

St Oswald's Church sits right at the end of a very rough cobbled road, hence the street is called The Cobbles.

A bust of Minerva sits proudly atop the grand Hayes façade of the library extension, probably pictured at the time of its opening in 1896.

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield. Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

Keymer is at the foot of the Downs near Hassocks.The Norman church of St Cosmos and St Damian was re-built in 1866. Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote.

They stayed here until the Dissolution of the Monasteries three hundred years later. Four hundred years after it was dissolved, the Carmelites returned.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

The carefully-pollarded lime trees along both sides of this north to south street help to shade the frontages of the varied shops and other retail establishments which flourish here.

Only a couple of miles from Kettering, the village of Barton Seagrave retains plenty of charm and character.

This chapter ends at Great Houghton, south-east of Northampton. It is a small village with a few modern closes. The White Hart pub is little changed.

A little north of the attractive village of Naseby, on the Market Harborough road, this 40 ft high stone obelisk commemorates the Battle of Naseby at which the New Model Army routed the Royalists in 1645

His carriage has stopped near the summit of Kirkstone, one of the most famous of the Lake District passes, which connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant entertainments of distinctly popular order.

Ideally located to take advantage of the beneficial properties of sea air, the south-facing hospital wards further benefited from the shelter of existing trees.

Chamber and the Queen's Hall with its stunning panels of stained glass on its western side.

Not part of the University, Westminster College is one of several theological colleges in Cambridge; this one is the college of the Presbyterian Church of England.

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

This photograph of the lovely interior of the church gives a good indication of how the former decay in the fabric of the church described in 1779 by Thomas Beaufort as “a large, old, ugly wretched church

The Victorians, who were fond of such comparisons, compared the locality of Sandown to the Bay of Naples.