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Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

Originally it was called the Flint Gate; then it was re-named after the Grand Old Duke of York and re-built in 1795 by Lord Henniker.

This picture was taken eastwards from the north side of East Street, from Mrs Alice E Gale's musical instrument emporium and fancy repository on the corner with Barrack Street (left).

Beyond it can be seen Widnes's war memorial which lists 818 men from the town who died in the First World War, the youngest a boy aged only 15.

This 7-foot-tall inscribed stone is shown here on the B3269 road - it was moved here from Castle Dore, but has since been moved nearer the town. It is reputed to be of the 6th century.

The Palladian-style Town Hall designed by John Carr dominates the background.

Mac Fisheries, far left, was a regular on TV ads; Marks and Spencer's, built on the City Cinema site, has been open a year, next to Woolworth's, the other High Street favourite.

The ornate canopy in the centre of the view is the Symons & Son building. This has had a variety of uses over the years; a Georgian town house, it was converted to this wonderful edifice in 1890.

The Long Hoe, or Lytham Green, has been preserved over the years, and is one of the great amenities of the town.

The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood. When the English Civil War began in 1642, Parliamentary troops were garrisoned in Coleford.

By 1818 the prison within the castle was already considered inadequate despite only having been built in 1779 and plans were drawn up for a new prison in the outer ward.

The name derives from bos, Latin for ox, and ton, Anglo-Saxon for township. A Roman villa was here from AD200.

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

North of the old town, isolated farmhouses and cottages were engulfed in Victorian expansion.

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory

Despite its name, Newhaven is anything but new, for it dates from Henry VIII's time when the River Ouse was canalised into its present course, and the town absorbed the old village of Meeching.

This is the original part of Cheltenham, pre-dating the grander areas that grew up when the town rose to prominence as a fashionable spa.

Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

Presented with a fine bronze circular fountain adorned with four winged lions and set centrally within the square, it is surprising that the garden's designer could resist the temptation to continue

This peaceful and idyllic rural scene, with the horse and cart behind a small girl pushing a pram outside the church of St John the Baptist, belies Crawley's mid 19th-century expansion into a railway town

The artists Stanhope Forbes and Walter Langley settled here in the 1880s to paint the harbour and its fishermen.

Dominating the seafront, this is believed to have been the first-ever free-standing, purpose-built clock tower, and was donated to the town by Mrs Ann Thwaites in 1837.

What weddings and baptisms brought joy to the community from within these walls of All Saints' in olden times?