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A large map showing the streets of Weybridge to help visitors has now joined the oak shelter, and the bus stop outside the Ship Inn is now more prominent.

This thoroughfare is a continuation of Westgate and Park Lane, and at 80 ft wide is 10 ft wider than Union Street, Aberdeen.

The older parts of Chipstead village are on the chalk ridge above the dry valley some 150 feet below, along which Chipstead Valley Road runs.

The streetscape is dominated by the former Burton's building, an urban interloper of 1939 with its giant Ionic pilasters supporting a heavy cornice.

On the right is St Peter's, the parish church of Blaenavon, built by the ironmasters Hopkins and Hill in 1805.

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

This view is flanked on the left by the shop front of Greenwoods chemist's and druggist's shop.

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

When the first Earl of Dorchester purchased Milton Abbey in 1752, he had the entire village dismantled and rebuilt, moving it further away from his new home.

SS 'Margaret Jones' is loading coal at one of the moveable tips on the vertical wall side opposite the mole on No 1 Dock.

Right in the far north-eastern corner of the county, Disley straddles the busy A6.

Was the Millennium Dome at Greenwich based on Kingswinford shopping centre? Perhaps we should be told!

The first mention of St Bartholomew's church dates back to 1125, and that structure survived until 1820. It was replaced by a fairly plain church, which was largely demolished in 1885.

As early as 1943, the parish council discussed the issue of whether Bovingdon would continue as a village or develop into a commercial or industrial area.

The A12 runs through the village, with Chapel Road (leading to the Congregational chapel of 1778) to the left and Blythburgh Road to the right.

We are looking down on Daventry from Newnham Hill, a view that has been changed by a pink rash of housing estates as the town rapidly expanded from its comfortable 5000 in 1955 to around

St Oswald's Church sits on a slight rise.

Beyond in the centre of the road is the original Shambles building, an enclosed market erected in 1825.

Mercers Row leads west from the market place, with the parish church of All Saints to its left. It was largely rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1675 which destroyed most of the town centre.

The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's Church.

The circuitous narrow road which leads up from the Swaledale village of Keld is being negotiated by an early motorcar.

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin. It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

Horses were still commonly used on the land, and this scene, showing the loading of a hay wagon on the shores of Buttermere, with Honister Crag and Fleetwith Pike prominent in the background, demonstrates

It is accessible by foot at low tide, and many a holidaymaker has fallen foul of the tide's rapid reversal – a sobering cold night spent on the island their reward.