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Stodman Street leads out of the south-west corner of the Market Place. Its most famous building is the Governor's House, a 16th-century timber-framed house with three storeys of coved jetties.

The old town was originally about a quarter of a mile from the sea, but since 1888, a contemporary guidebook tells us, 'the South Beach Land and Building Corporation Limited are building very extensively

The lower niches to the north contain scenes from the New Testament, and to the south scenes from the Old Testament, while beneath these are angels.

This is St Mary`s parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east. The projecting north transept (right) dates from the 13th century and is two centuries older than the tower.

Frith's photographer has moved into the High Street and is looking south towards The White Horse pub - which is little changed today.

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

Built for Peter Birt in the 1770s to a design by Robert Adam, this grand residence was for many years renowned for its beautiful interiors, their opulence virtually unparalleled in South Wales.

All the streams rejoin the river further south. The house left centre was St Agnes, and became a doctor's surgery. The River Inn has now been built there.

The walls have been constructed of flints (which are copious in the chalk hills of the South Downs) and edged with stone at the windows and doors.

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

The chancel arch and font date from this time, the tower is late 14th-century and the south aisle was added during a restoration of 1531.

Further east, at the junction with Ironmonger Street, the quality of the Georgian stone or stucco façades on the right is evident, while on the left or south side there is more variety.

South of Lincoln a string of villages grew up along the western edge of the limestone ridge, mostly along the spring line.

Described as 'Robin Hood's village', Edwinstowe lies south of the Sherwood Forest Country Park.

The brick footpath heads towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble.

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

Albion Road, the most easterly of the Victorian developments south of the railway, has its back garden fences along the parish boundary with Carshalton.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

Here Bonnie Prince Charlie rested overnight on his march south during the Jacobite uprising of 1745.

In 1750 the Trust did build two new bridges over the Rivers Hit and Flit, and North Bridge Street and South Bridge Street to run between them.

The town was built on the coal industry, as were many in South Wales; Porthcawl was a coal port in the 19th century, but it declined in the face of competition from Barry and Port Talbot.

Around the Market Place at this time were a large number of pubs used by the town's seafarers (South Shields had the largest number of seamen as a proportion of its population than anywhere else in Britain

Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.