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Rebuilt in 1856-8 on a medieval site, this church has fragments from the old church on display. The architect was Woodyer of Guildford, and the builder Holdaway from Wherwell.

Borough Green was once a hamlet in Ightham and Wrotham parishes, six miles to the east of Sevenoaks.

The ruins make it hard to believe in its history of royal visits; on one of these, the mayor of Norwich arrived with a hundred citizens to present a petition to the king's mother in 1469.

Just south of Middlesmoor is Lofthouse, the northernmost point of the old Nidd Valley municipal railway.

Bancroft was said to be one of the most beautiful streets in England by the artist F L Griggs in the 1890s, and it still shows a certain charm. The building in the distance stands at Moss's Corner.

In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.

At Douglas, passengers can land at all states of the tide.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

Going north to the Godstone to Reigate road, that part of the A25 that runs along the greensand ridge south of the North Downs, we reach the village of Bletchingley.

The village of Radley is best known for its public school founded in 1847. To the east of its campus is the village, as it were at the gates of the school.

The font cover is one of the finest medieval covers in England, with tabernacle work rising in stages to 12 feet in height.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

Bucklers Hard and the Beaulieu River are now visited regularly by yachtsmen who are fond of the old anchorage.

The long main street of Dorchester probably established its present line at the time of the Romans, and has been used by travellers since.

This view shows the bridge over the Cam Beck at the top end of Ketttlewell, a charming village in the heart of Upper Wharfedale.

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

The cobbled surface is clearly visible with the rails of the horse tram curving away sharply to the left. The large scale of many of Belfast's buildings is also apparent.

A splendid variety of architecture, ranging from medieval through Georgian to Victorian, greets the visitor to Dorchester.

Also situated north of the town and at one time also called the Lions' Den, these sandstone caves were once a feature of The Plot, an area of common grazing land.

Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

Roger de Berkeley, the first tenant after the Conquest, was probably responsible for the construction of the first castle on the site, and we know that Henry II was entertained here over Easter in 1121

The popularity of the north coast beaches and the advent of mass tourism led to the stretch of coastline between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay being almost totally occupied with caravan sites, amusement arcades,