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Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

It was constructed primarily of wood, except for the section that passes over the river bed, which is of iron girders and pile-driven steel cylinders.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

The White Lion Hotel on the right is still there today, and so is W D Cunliffe the grocers and bakers (telephone 123). Next to them, out of the picture, is now the Clitheroe Information Centre.

William the Conqueror's original royal fortress was a wooden tower on the motte, which in later generations would form the upper bailey.

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.

The architect was Henry Kennedy of London, and the clock maker a local man, Mr Edward Edwards. The clock was erected in 1873 by the Marquis of Londonderry to celebrate his son's coming of age.

It was in 1789 that it was first given the name of Mary Arden's House, reflecting a local tradition that it had been the home of Shakespeare's mother before her marriage.

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.

Historian Arthur Mee, in his book 'The King's England - Oxfordshire,' says that 'if our England is a garden Great Tew is one of its rare plots...never anything but beautiful'.

The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

Chalford always was - and remains - a curious blend of the picturesque and industrial.

Beyond the village rises Wetherlam, the most northerly of the Coniston Fells, and over to the left, hidden by cloud, Lancashire's highest peak, the Old Man.

A closer view of the massive entrance to Peak Cavern, said to be the largest cave entrance in Britain.

The great state bed of Haddon was removed during the 9th Duke's restoration, and is now kept in the picture gallery at Belvoir Castle.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

The Church of St Just has a 15th-century tower which was built to hold a light for shipping. This may have helped local boats, but the nearby Dodman Point claimed many ships.

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.