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Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

The two men with the horse are not far from the brook which runs through Downham - it is the haunt of white ducks and mallard.

The proprietor of J L Brooks' ironmongery shop has not yet opened the shop's wrought iron entrance gate.

Little has changed in this view of the brook running through the estate village. On the left, the old bakery is now augmented by a tea room.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Fact File (David Brooks) New houses in Clarendon Park, where Long Grove Hospital stood.

Looking back towards Boutport Street in 1903, Brook's is still a cafe. It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

It is an ancient fording point on Sherborne Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush. Many of the neat stone cottages, like the ones we see here, were lived in by workers on the Sherborne Estate.

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

The Railway Hotel, near the Chandler's Ford station, changed its name to the Monks Brook Inn after the closure of the station in 1969. The name remains, although the station has been reopened.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

An 18th-century house incorporating Trowell Stores (advertising Brooke Bond Tea) and the White Horse Inn selling Tolly ales and stout face the square.

Most were demolished in the late 1950s, but part of Brookes Court survives.

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

Erected in 1817 to designs by William Brookes of London, the Bath stone building cost a staggering £24,000. The tip of the spire reaches 175ft above the ground.

This part of Thornton was connected with Stanah (Stayna) by Holmes Brook.

Read Holliday's grandson, Lionel Brook Holliday, who had served on the Western Front as a major, started his own company further along Leeds Road.

His son Ivor, who in 1880 was made Lord Wimborne, welcomed many visitors, including the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), Lady Wimborne's nephew Winston Churchill, and the poet Rupert Brooke.

His son Ivor, who in 1880 was made Lord Wimborne, welcomed many visitors, including the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), Lady Wimborne's nephew Winston Churchill, and the poet Rupert Brooke.

Its Welsh name is Llanddewi Nant Honddu, meaning 'the church of St David on the Honddu brook'.

There is a mark on the mill showing the floods of 1884 and 1922 but since the late 1930s and the construction of the Eye Brook Reservoir upstream, the flood danger is not so great.

Its Welsh name is Llanddewi Nant Honddu, meaning 'the church of St David on the Honddu brook'.