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Looking North-East to Fleet Street The junction to East Street is on the left, with Catherine Street on the right.

Situated in the forest of Charnwood, which was probably uninhabited prior to 1086, Woodhouse Eaves, with its close neighbour Swithland, is associated with the vast output of slate during the 18th

This inn is one of the 17th-century buildings in Westport to survive the Civil War skirmishes between the Royalists and the Parliamentary forces lead by Sir William Waller.

This superb Ketton stone-faced Gothic Revival church was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years later than its close neighbour, Cromer. Even then the trains arrived only from the Midlands and the North.

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.

It was built as long ago as 1480; more recently, in 1919 it became the home of the actress Ellen Terry. Today it is a National Trust Memorial to Miss Terry.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.

He had stayed the night at Stoneyhurst, and it took most of the day for the horses, mules and men to cross.

At this time these shops would close at noon on Saturday, and Sunday opening was unheard of.

There had been a large crypt in the church where over 2,500 of Manchester's citizens were laid to rest, because there was no graveyard.

The commanding view of the town led to number of schemes to erect a monument: the first was to have been the Victoria Prospect Tower in 1849.

Fairford is situated on the River Coln a few miles from the Thames in Gloucestershire. It is noted for fishing, and for a fine old mill dating from a long-time dependency on wool.