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Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The railway brought coal prices tumbling in the town and ensured prosperity, along with other villages along the line.

The prosperous Georgian feel of the town originates with the presence of the castle and with its role as a market town and agricultural centre.

The diocese was founded here in 909 AD, and the present church replaced a Norman one consecrated in 1148.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

East of the town and the Abbey, Glastonbury Tor rises abruptly to 525 feet above sea level from the 'island' above the Moors on which Glastonbury is built.

This interesting mining village, almost a town, developed in the 19th century close to the great copper mines of Consolidated and United Downs.

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

Using water ballast to operate it, it still works today, making the journey between town and beach a much easier one. The pier opened in 1869, and was originally 1500ft long.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

There are overgrown sandpits above the junction of Victoria Road (centre left), and Beach Road (centre) which has since been re-named Shore Road.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled. Now it is now just an attractive riverside village.

Its appearance was much the same in a town guide of 1961, when it was advertised as having central heating with fires in all rooms.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals. The five mile-long Wisbech Canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech.

Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony.

Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

Honiton's lace production was at its peak during and in the years after the reign of Elizabeth I. It seems to have declined after a series of devastating town fires in the 18th century.

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.