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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.

The market cross is an imposing structure, reflecting Ilchester's former status as the county town.

Into this somewhat irregular setting were inserted the drawing-board creations of formal, manicured rose gardens with their inevitable stone urns and steps leading down from a parterre.

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

The 12th century Church of St Helen and St Giles looks down on the Clock Tower, erected in 1921 as a memorial to Rainham men who fell during the First World War.

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

The Sun Hotel's garden reached right down to the river.

The sinuous valley of the Tattenham Corner branch- line threads its way through the contours at the foot of Banstead Downs on the right.

The farm buildings are in a less orderly state, and there is a Spar shop down the road on the left.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Further down we come to the crossroads with Michaelgate and Christ's Hospital Terrace.

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

It stands below Efford Down, on top of which is the Storm Tower, also built by Acland.

Note the goods piled outside on the pavement outside Jackson's hardware store on the right, and the horse and cart further down the street.

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Eventually the steep paths lead down to the sea at Holy Well where sea bathing is possible, although the notice warns that it is dangerous when the red flag is flying.

With the grassy downs behind, this is a most delightful medieval church: small and intimate, set in a well treed churchyard, with a most unusual stone bell turret, battlemented and carried on big corbels

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

Holiday bungalows and chalets line the skyline, and the Cove Café is perched on a shelf halfway down the cliff (centre).

Behind us is the entrance to Dunmow`s secondary school, Helena Romanes, which was built in 1958-59 to replace the Council School on the Downs.

Cheap Street, off Market Place and now pedestrianised, retains its medieval and Tudor character: it has a stream running down its centre in a channel.

She painted the original cottages on this site just before they were pulled down amid much outcry in 1885, and replaced by these mock-Tudor buildings.

Passengers occupying the roof seats were able to enter the hotel directly through an upper door, saving them the nuisance of having to clamber down from the coach.

Its former watermill, also partly Tudor, is approached down a short leafy lane and has in recent years been carefully restored.