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A little further down, however, it surges over a weir where a watermill used to stand.

Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.

From Castle Hill we look down on the Esplanade, with the Beach Hotel in the middle distance.

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Its claim to fame is the Barn Stone - a huge granite boulder swept down from Scotland during the last Ice Age.

Looking down Gloucester Street, this view shows St Peter's in the distance. This 15th-century church is noted for its grotesque gargoyles. The interior was substantially renovated in 1872.

Havant is a busy little town overlooking Langstone Harbour; its church recalls the time of Roman and Norman invaders.

Down the hill to the left lie the delights of the Logan Rock Inn, while turning right after the telephone box leads to a beautiful campsite high above Porthcurno beach.

The original family home burnt down in a fierce blaze on Christmas Day 1845.

We now start to go down the Frimley Road, and this is the junction with Edward Avenue.

When it had become unsafe in 1904, the stone lion on the roof of the Lion Hotel was brought down to stand on the pavement.

Today the mill has been turned into an inn, and the fields below the steep road have been laid out as a car park for visitors to Polperro village that lies down to the right.

That figure is now down to 20% as a result of the introduction of many new national and international routes by other airlines.

The photographer is standing on Monks Hill, looking down the winding road that leads to the centre of the original village.

The 17th-century box pews were irreparably damaged in the 'restoration' of the 1860s by Norman Shaw, when they were cut down.

The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.

Just outside the village is the beautiful 560-acre Godmersham Park, the home down the centuries of the Valoigns, Astyns and Broadnaxes. Jane Austen was a frequent visitor here.

Looking West This view looks down Commercial Road towards the old market site.

Behind the boat with sails up (centre left) we can just see a row of bathing machines, which could be towed down to the water so that the bathers could step out of the machine straight into

The buildings just beyond have been pulled down and replaced.

Broseley was once the only sizeable town in what is now known as the Ironbridge Gorge area. It was an important industrial centre, and coal was mined and shipped from here down the River Severn.

They weigh up to 40 tons each, and were brought from Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, about 20 miles away, from a surface quarry that can still be visited.

The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

We are looking down on Aberdare, a town set amid beautiful scenery at the head of the Cynon Valley. On the far right, the road continues over the top to Maerdy.