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They include an eight- sided wood-panelled font and a 13th-century chest with triple locks.

North-east of Cambridge, the River Cam quickly becomes wooded on either side, setting an attractive scene here at Baits Bite Lock.

The Dripping Well in Anchor Woods was a popular spot with the Victorians. To the left, a kissing gate gives onto a path which now leads to the Tarka Trail.

With its modern tower and spire rising 140 feet above Twyford, the handsome church looks out across woods and meadows towards the bank of the Itchen.

In 1926, a mineral well was discovered in Martinhole Wood, just below the hill.

North-east of Cambridge, the River Cam quickly becomes wooded on either side, setting an attractive scene here at Baits Bite Lock.

This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards.

The name Fulwood comes from the Old English and means 'dirty or foul wood'. Here we see the main road leading north from Preston and the Methodist Church.

The central doors, which can just be seen in this photograph, were made by the famous wood carver, Thompson of Kilburn: his signature, a mouse, is carved on the right-hand door.

Moreton Paddox featured profuse neo-Jacobean decoration in wood and plaster in most areas, including the main staircase, as we see here.

A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

The resort is described in an 1890s guidebook: 'it has a wooded and well-sheltered situation and a singularly lovely seaward prospect.

The newly built Woodnewton Infants School stands close to Rowlett Road, with the trees of Thoroughsale Woods in the background.

Note the people enjoying the Riverside Gardens (background left), which were once piled high with wood waiting to be shipped from what used to be Gunstock Wharf.

Its heavily wooded creeks were a favourite venue for smugglers, and include perhaps the most famous inlet of all - Frenchman's Creek, made famous by Daphne du Maurier.

In summer the wooded slopes above are a mass of myrtle and hydrangea. East Looe's cramped main street, edged with a jumble of jettied shops and cottages, tapers down to the quay.

The two wood and pantile shelters on either side of what was to become Tower Esplanade were useful refuges when it began to rain.

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

In the distance is St John's Church, Bridgetown; the wooded hill to the right is now the large housing estate of Westonfields.

It was originally built in wood in 1859, but it was extended and rebuilt in late Victorian times.An electric railway runs its entire length.

The story of Charles II hiding in an oak tree is true - it happened here, in what was then thickly wooded countryside.

Before George Lane was built up during the earlier 20th century, it was a narrow wooded way known as Love Lane.

This well-wooded little lake is now in the hands of the National Trust.

A long-established boat builder, Herbert Woods, has extensive sheds alongside the river. The buildings look much the same today as in 1955.