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Epsom is famous for two things: Epsom Salts, and the two great classic flat races run on the Downs south of the town, the Derby and the Oaks, both inaugurated in the late 18th century.

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

Silbury Hill, near Marlborough, is the largest man-made mound in Europe. It was once thought (justifiably at that time) to be a large burial mound for an important Bronze Age chieftain.

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

Situated six miles south-east of Mold, Caergwrle is a small castle comprising the ruins of three round towers and a polygonal turret; it was captured and destroyed in 1282.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market. Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Freebrough Hill, located on the edge of Moorsholm on the A171 Guisborough- to-Whitby moor road, is steeped in legend.

Most of the region's towns have fine buildings and churches paid for by the wool trade that flourished in these parts.

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

The road widens to form Posey Green, with the 1930s Horseshoe Inn on the right out of camera shot; it is a rambling mix of local sandstone and timber-framing with a huge horseshoe-

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

Windmill Hill is near Herstmonceux.

The main road from London originally climbed Angel Hill's ridge, but in the early 19th century a cutting was made.

The Plaiting School in the village employed village ladies and children who supplemented the low agricultural wages by weaving strips of straw, called plait, to the hat-making trade in Luton.

It soon became a destination for those who wanted to enjoy a spot which seems to make the mouth of Belfast Lough its own.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

Today the wooden gates are gone, and so is the fountain in the road, erected by the Hender family in memory of their son Leonard, who drowned near Land's End in 1894.

Following the building of St Anne's, Ansdell and Fairhaven were slower to develop, remaining an area of woodland and sandhills.

We are looking along Chequer Street towards Honey Hill; the shape of the community has changed little.

This ancient town crowns the steep hill above the valley of the River Kensey. Here we see the broad market place, with its pleasing facades of 17th- and 18th-century slate-roofed buildings.