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At the head of the pier we can see the cliff lift, still operating today, transporting passengers from the town down to the sea front.

The impressive and imposing ruins of Malmesbury Abbey look down on the river Avon 60 feet below.

The church is unusual because the slope of the ground down to Puddingmore meant that the tower had to be built on firmer ground to the south-east of the building.

From the High Street, Ferry Lane leads down to the river and the former ferry point. We are looking back up the lane with the river behind us.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

Collingham village has a fascinating mixture of houses - down past the parish church of St Oswald are the Old Rectory, the Manor House, the Dower House and some well preserved artisans' cottages.

Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby. The wide, open green provides space for visitors.

Beside the church is the Three Tuns Hotel owned by David Beatton, which burnt down in January 1925. Lord Nelson and Charles Dickens are reputed to have stayed there.

Further down the street is the gable of the Methodist chapel. In the distance is the sign of the Wheatsheaf. The building on the left is dated 1883, and the two shops have now become offices.

Down the street the King's Head has closed, but retains its Lacon's sign on the wall. Set back is the Vine Church, a Baptist Chapel rebuilt in 1868.

Behind her is a small steam tug which was making ready to tow several barges down the Trent to Nottingham. The steamer in the background is the locally-built (1896) and registered 'Dido'.

This continues a bizarre, centuries-old tradition, in which participants race down a precipitous slope in pursuit of a Double Gloucester cheese.

The building falling down was Well's butchers, since cleared for the Loders Arms car park.

Because the difficult alkaline downland soil yielded indifferent crops, for centuries the South Downs were vast sheepwalks; by the 18th century there were 400,000 ewes grazing between Eastbourne and Hampshire

This is the view down Hockerill Street towards the River Stort, where the spire of St Michael's Church rises above the trees and houses.

The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.

Felixstowe Cottage, on the left, is now called Above Town Cottage, and the taller timber-framed house on the right is known as The Downs House.

Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales. R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was born in the village.

There are two Benthams, High and Lower, and this view looks down Mount Pleasant from the village cross in High Bentham.

It was surrounded by its own wooded grounds, leading down to the sea at Polridmouth Bay.

It is now a series of steps leading down to the water. Out of sight and beyond the bridge to the left is the new County Hall.

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street. The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

The old wooden hut on the bank is sliding inevitably down into the shallows, its thatched roof rotted and patched.

These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.