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At this point, the river is placid, and silver fish can be seen darting just below the surface; to the south, in the still water by the Causeway, all kinds of ducks and wading birds are fed

The chancel and south chapel date from the 14th century and the exceptionally tall tower was built about a century later.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay.

Double rows of beach tents (centre left) line the Cart Road to the south of the Bay Private Hotel.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

Said to derive its name from a local family, the area basically occupies a stretch of Edgware Road about a mile south of Edgware.

The North and South Brinks, sombre rows of mansions and warehouses, look out over each other on opposite sides of the river.

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others.

Between the 1880s and the early 1920s, workers flocked from all over the south-west to find work in Abertillery's coal mines.

South of the town, a long-redundant lightship lies on the slipway near Argent Street; its light was hauled up to the masthead on cables.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting. There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs. St Leonard's church was built in 1895.

The photographer is positioned on the south-east corner of Mill Meadows Island looking north to Boatslide Weir Bridge with its rustic-style balustrades.

of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury to the south

The 120-foot tower of St James' dominates this view from the south-east. The church is notable for its 15th- century frontals, which are said to be the earliest set in the country.

The Green continues south from the market place. The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times.

To the south are further artisan terraces and short side streets. The early 19th-century cottages on the left were lost in the 1960s.

Wadhurst, a village about six miles south-east of Tunbridge Wells, was a centre of the iron industry during the 16th and 17th centuries.

What the Army did for Aldershot, the London and South Western Railway Company did for Eastleigh, helping to transform a forgotten rural backwater into a bustling and thriving town.The image of the

Dragging a cumbersome plate camera with him, he took four photographs, looking north, south, east and west.

Inside there was a restaurant, a cinema and reputedly the south coast's best ballroom. Unfortunately, it was pulled down in 1971. Lee has definitely lost some of its character.

To the south is the oldest nonconformist chapel in Maidstone, the Unitarian Church of 1736, where William Hazlitt's father was minister from 1770 to 1780.

The most outstanding feature is the fine Perpendicular windows on the south side, which were reputedly installed by the Neville family in 1490.