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The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.

A walk up Gay Street, named after Robert Gay, who granted John Wood the lease on this hilly area north-west of the old city, leads to one of the most celebrated pieces of this remarkable city's townscape

Upper Weston has all the appearance of a typical Cotswold stone village with its main street winding gently uphill.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.

Madingley is a typical example of an estate village, remodelled in order to improve the view from the landlord's mansion.

The road leads down through the village of Lealholm to the bridge over the River Esk in the background.

On the left is the main London railway line and, still further to the left, the Thames and Severn Canal.

Friar Street was an odd assortment of buildings, including a number of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses and shops.

Mention Catterick to most people and they will immediately think of the great army garrison, which is actually situated four miles from the village itself.

This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

East of Gravesend, near where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea, is Sheerness, a port and seaside resort on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

Here we see Bondgate with its famous slope of cobbles. The buildings on the right are mainly late 18th- and early 19th-century.

The Village c1965 This photograph was taken after the formation of Washington New Town.

The bushes to the left hide the site of the old abbey at Abingdon, founded in 676 and again in 955 after the original had been destroyed by marauding Danes. It was the mainstay of this area.

This well-known public house stands at the foot of the Downs. The area was noted for grazing sheep. There is a spring-fed well by the roadside next to the pub.

There was an urgent need for this school for the sons of Methodist ministers, for the ministers were re-located every three years.

Between 1801 and 1901 the industrialisation process brought tens of thousands of people into Staffordshire. The population of Cannock rose from 1,359 to 23,974; Wolverhampton from 12,565 to 94,187.

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Entering the town, you may see some of the following: several acres of Victorian housing, from railway-side terraces to detached, self-confident villas; a church with a nice green spire; a white

Those of you familiar with Amberley will see that this picture pre-dates the restoration of the battlements on the 14th-century gatehouse.

In the 7th century, Selsey was the cultural centre of Sussex.

Polegate, with its typical flint walls and buildings, lies just below the extreme eastern end of the South Downs.