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The church of St Mary Magdalene is mainly 13th and 14th-century, with beautiful stained glass windows dating from the 16th century.

Jesus Lock is the limit of navigation on the River Cam for powered craft.

The original 1877 Cottage Hospital building survives in Croydon Road as part of Beckenham Hospital.

Ladies' Walk ends a little more than a kilometre south-west of the bridge where the workman sits on Ladies' Walk.

The colliery opened in July 1960; most of its output went by conveyor direct to nearby Rugeley, a power station. Lea Hall closed in December 1990.

The young girl's boater and pinafore are typical of the period.

The alley to the right of the hotel building now leads to the New Market Shopping Centre.

The house at the end of the 17th-century cottages gives onto Rook Lane. It is now almost hidden from view behind tall hedging and trees with a very secret garden.

Much of this avenue survives the outer bailey, although it is now bounded by 1920s low walling, and the ornate benches have been replaced by more utilitarian ones.

This view of the Thames illustrates Cookham's potential for picnicking and relaxing by the water's edge.

It is one of the best medieval merchant houses in the city, and is now an excellent museum.

On one occasion, the boilers backfired and they had to escape because of all the black smoke.

It is seen here in its former glory, for it was burned down in 1934; it has since been rebuilt in brick - a copy of the stone original.

The bank was built in 1894 as the Wilts & Dorset Bank on the main road to Bournemouth at the Church Road cross- roads at the bottom of Castle Hill. Today it is Lloyds TSB.

This panoramic view of Hythe shows St Leonard's Church in the foreground. The Royal Military Canal stretches parallel with the coast, hidden by the furthest trees in the middle distance.

Before the development of Crawley New Town, the Hazlewick Mill path and bridge was a renowned beauty spot.

Like other villages that are found along the course of the River Evenlode and its tributary streams, Ascott-under-Wychwood's function was milling.

Wychwood is an ancient deciduous forest in the North Cotswolds, and a string of picturesque villages take their names from it: Milton-under-Wychwood, Shipton-under-Wychwood and, glimpsed here as it was

Dated 1928, the upper part of Tarpots Hall was used by 1341 Thames Estuary Squadron ATC. The lower storey contained a dance floor, popular with young people at the time.

For centuries it thrived as a fishing port, but it lost out with the rise of nearby Newlyn in the 19th century.

Fishing boats, still all sailing craft at this date, are moored in the shelter of the two piers.

The Big Wheel can be seen in the playground to the right of the picture, with The Golden Hind to the left.

Woolbridge Manor is another Dorset building with Thomas Hardy associations, for it was here that Tess of the D'Urbervilles spent her short and disastrous honeymoon with Angel Clare.

This straggling village has spent much of the last fifty years being dominated by a structure that proved to be as controversial - the Winfrith Atomic Energy Station.