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One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.

One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.

This all changed when the harbour was built in 1829, and various mineral railway lines made their way to the town.

St Anne's has been described as 'a town built on golf', and this is epitomised in this splendid building.

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871-72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour.

A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

It reinvented itself as a cloth-weaving town, and is today a quaint market town with narrow streets. The Elizabethan town hall is now the museum.

In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour.

Princetown is an unlikely spot for a town—1400 feet above sea level, on an exposed col between North Hessary Tor (top left, without the TV mast that adorns it today) and South Hessary Tor, and with

This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.

The creeper-clad Dinorben Arms Hotel (left) and the Eleth Hotel provided good quality accommodation in the 1930s.

Military flags hang on the wall of the north aisle (left), for the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry has close associations with the town and church.

The view down the town's busiest trading place begins with grocer and wine merchant Sarah Chapman's shop front (left) facing the Volunteer Inn (far right), where the landlord was Tom Searle.

This view across what is now known as the Peace Gardens towards the mock-Gothic spires of Sheffield's Town Hall has not changed significantly since this photograph was taken.

St Lawrence's Church was built in the Perpendicular style, and features a number of grotesque gargoyles that stare down from the eaves.

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 two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

The town's identity is linked to the magnificent white horse cut into the chalk hillside, a landmark which guides the traveller.

As we approach the town, it is possible to see cranes rising above the waterfront of this busy port. Harbour Road is close to the sea. Both the Angel and the next building are clad in weatherboard.

Fore Street once had many thatched cottages and a stream running down one side, but it was rebuilt in the 19th century, when the town prospered with the woollen industry.

Continuing south-east across Ashdown Forest, the tour finishes at Uckfield, a town now by-passed and the terminus of a commuter railway line to London, the continuation to Lewes having been closed.

Swanage spent much of the 20th century developing as a holiday resort, though the town never seemed quite sure whether to try to appeal to the masses or the more exclusive visitor.