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Further down, towards Bancroft and Nightingale Road, the tannery and other industrial works poured their waste into the river. Only the lavender works may have offset the obnoxious smell of the Hiz!

Terraces extend down Mallams, and houses have reached Modbury Mead (centre).

Although the railway station opened in 1847 some 200 yards south of the Cock Hotel crossroads, development did not really get under way here until the Epsom Downs line opened in 1865, and new station

Here, looking down Main Street towards St Mary's Church with its horse mounting steps, we see the white Imperial Cottage (left). The chestnut tree has been removed, giving a view of Jubb's Farm.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

Church House (down to the left) dates from 1694, but Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines - and the

It was on the sands here that the French invasion army laid down its arms — with the exception of 25 who could not attend due to temporary incapacity (they were ill or probably drunk on looted

The Working Men's Club is now at The Lodge, Welton Road, just out of sight to the left down Abbey Street.

It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

This long straggling village, in the centre of the old tin mining district, sits on a steep hill running down to the Tamar. We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill.

A Ship Canal Pleasure Steamer Company was formed, and weekends and Bank Holidays would see two or three of these paddle steamers taking passengers on sight-seeing trips up and down the canal.

High Salvington, a hamlet on the downs, is now swallowed up, as is the Findon Valley below to the east; in effect it is a suburb cut off by the teeming A27.

But then, Essex people were not known for going down without a fight.

Down past the latticed railway bridge is the new road over the bridge to Middleton. At this time, before the First World War, the town is still very relaxed.

Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river. One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

The building is of about 1300 with an unbuttressed west tower of 1707, when its spire was taken down. As

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.

This is taken further down the same road as 48369. The Swan Inn advertises 'Good Accommodation for Cyclists', and another sign offers 'Horse and Trap or Wagonette for Hire'.

It is home to the Tal-y-Llyn Railway, which opened in 1865, making it the oldest narrow-gauge railway in Wales; it brought slate down from the Abergynolwyn quarries.

The bare chalk in this view of the Whiteleaf Cross is nowadays not seen so clearly; the downs have since become covered in trees and scrub, with woods in the middle distant field.

Mr Chapple opened his garage further down the street in 1914 – note the petrol pumps on the pavement – and on either side are a barber's shop and a café advertising teas.

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.