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This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

In 1890 they joined forces with the Capital and Counties Bank.

South-east of the village, a lane crosses the county boundary with Bedfordshire along the upper reaches of the young River Ouzel.

This hotel was probably first built at the end of the 18th century, when the Turnpike Trusts began to improve the county's roads.

Built in 1867, this ivy-festooned building was considered to be one of the finest private chapels in the county.

By the early 18th century, enclosed Cloth Halls in other parts of the county were stealing business from Leeds.A hall for white cloths was opened in Kirkgate in 1711, then replaced by a larger one

Wells Cathedral was begun in the 1180s and finished in the 1230s; its glory is its magnificent west front, surely the finest in the country, which has over 400 carved figures in its niches.

One of the highlights of shopping along Briggate was the glass-roofed arcades, such as the Queen's and the County.

Silhouetted against the skyline, the south lock- house does not immediately appear to be a part of one of the county's major tourist attractions.

Thanks to restoration work by the Campden Trust, this honey-hued stone town has some of the finest buildings in the county.

We see it here from downstream, where a viaduct brought the first passenger railway into the county in 1847 - it ran from Southampton via Ringwood.

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

One of the highlights of shopping along Briggate was the glass-roofed arcades, such as the Queen's and the County.

This is a splendid county town; we see awnings shooting over the shop fronts and a number of cars dotting the kerbs. Bicycles propped up against the curbs predate modern bike racks.

The descent from Barkway, the second highest point in Hertfordshire, down to Royston, one of the lowest places in the county, was a nightmare for horse-drawn traffic and cyclists.

In the 14th century, Cranbrook became the centre of cloth making in the county after Edward III lured Flemish weavers to settle here. The trade lasted until the 18th century.

There was a church built of stone on the site as early as 1056; before that, Saxon bishops ruled County Durham from Chester-le-Street's timber-built monastic cathedral, where the bones of St Cuthbert himself

The headquarters of Somerset County Cricket Club, founded in 1875, lie on the south bank of the River Tone; although the grandstands are much changed, the arched one still in essence survives.

Among the buildings on view are the 16th-century dovecot, and examples of dwellings from different counties and different centuries, all painstakingly rebuilt and furnished.

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

Rothesay is the chief town of the County of Bute, and is situated in a well-formed bay, which affords safe anchorage in high wind.

once a tumbledown, disreputable place, but Alfred Doughty's obituary in 1916 says that after he purchased the inn in 1888, he improved it, 'until today The Cock Inn is one of the finest houses in the county

Here, rooms cost 4s a night and dinner 3s 6d; the County Hotel across the street had a similar tariff, as did the nearby Metropole.