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The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

Prestbury was home to Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey of his age.

If there is any breeze blowing, it will blow onto Clee Hill, and consequently the village can sometimes be very bleak.

The name refers to a form of investment: as investors in the company (in this case the hotel) died, their assets were passed to the surviving investors.

This is another extremely pretty little village in the heart of what was once Cheshire's cheese-producing countryside.

The entire churchyard, and even the paths leading to the door, are all covered with tombstones, some of which date back to the 1600s.

Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.

Legend has it that the original Coventry Arms was in Sleight Lane, half-a-mile from here, and was moved on the orders of the Earl of Coventry, who lived nearby and found the customers too noisy.

Commanding an excellent viewpoint, Halton Castle was first built as a wooden castle soon after the Norman invasion of England.

This peaceful village developed as a group of farmhouses around a village green, which until recently was rectangular in shape.

Aveley is a small village situated a few miles to the east of Rainham and close to the Thames and Essex Marshes.The parked bicycles on the right, no cars to be seen and the crowd waiting for the bus

A safe haven for cyclists on a sunny day - some manage to ride two abreast toward the photographer.

The market originally took place on the Green, but was confined to the south side of it after the Chapel on the Green was built in 1805.

This open plain of sea front has since been divided by the sea wall and a modern motor road.

Old fishing boats, some decommissioned, are beached on the foreshore on the Lelant side of the estuary.

The Fire Station and Parish Room on the left opened in 1904.

We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay.

Each of the four square corner towers is topped off with octagonal machicolated turrets, from which unpleasant things could be dropped upon the heads of unwelcome visitors.

Linlithgow reached its final form during the reign of James V, though the north wing was reconstructed in the neo-classical style between 1618-1633.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.

Horse trams are slowly climbing the hill on their journey from Tettenhall.

The first large property on the left is The Towers, and in front of it is the path leading down to the harbour and Jackson's Bay.

In 1957 it was taken over by the Claretian Missionaries, and under their care the Catholic church of St Hugh of Lincoln was built in 1959.

It overlooks the recently refurbished Thinking Soldier war memorial, designed by Lady Kathleen Scott (widow of Captain Scott of the Antarctic) and erected in 1923.