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A view down the hill towards the fine tower of the Parish Church of St Ia. The first building on the left was a Navigation School at the time.

We are looking away from the High Street down Chequer Street. The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing.

The most famous of all white horses, the Uffington horse lies on the Berkshire Downs near Wantage.

The tree we see here in front of St Andrew's church was an elm that suffered from Dutch elm disease in the 1960s and had to be cut down.

This sublime abbey, scene of many coronations down the centuries, is probably the most famous of English religious buildings, and considered the pinnacle of European Gothic architecture.

Part of it was a pumping station used to pump sea water to standpipes dotted around the town for Council workmen to draw off water to wash down the dusty streets.

Further down is the Rush Cutters pub.

Mechanisation might well have reached market traders, but down on the farm things were different. Here a sled is being put to good use during haymaking near Hawes.

Upstream of Tiverton, there are several weirs on the river Exe as it plunges down from Exmoor. The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.

Waterhouse, the architect of The Metropole Hotel, designed a splendid red brick and terracotta Town Hall in 1882. Tragically, it burnt down in 1966, and a modern structure took its place.

One longer tunnel is said to have run down to the beach.

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

It closed down as a shop and post office in the late 1970s. The YHA sign on the right points to the youth hostel that used to be at the end of Eastfield Road.

Further down, the shop with the clock and the 'eyes' was later removed in a road-widening scheme.

This delicacy probably went down well with Vitbe. Snow's is now a house caleed, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.

The Norman castle burnt down in 1684 and little survives. It was replaced by the present castle - more of a palace - built around Upper and Lower Castle Yards.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

The turning to the right off St Bride's Hill leads down to the Glen. The fields have now been more fully developed with residential property.

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

On the right are the rails of the spur that used to run down to the wharves.

The old Pier Pavilion was burnt down in 1959. The Exel Bowling Lanes replaced it and live entertainment moved to the end of the pier.

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century, and it still commands good views to the north and

It is cupped in a hollow of the South Downs, near the famous Seven Sisters sea-cliffs and the onetime smugglers' landing place at Birling Gap.

The village lies in the shadow of Chanctonbury Ring, one of the most famous landmarks on the South Downs.