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Byworth is a very pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.

Three air raid shelters are in the field in front of the church.

Chestnut trees were planted to soften the outline of the semi-circular area, and there were changing cubicles and two springboards. Mixed bathing (even for children) was forbidden.

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting

The first recorded wooden bridge was built here on the site of the original ford in the early 12th century.

It was built in 1816, and the story most often told is that it was erected by the duke's tenant farmers in thanks for having their rents remitted during a period of agricultural depression.

The church of St Mary was built in 1847. Balcombe House, once called Parsonage House, is a large Tudor-style house of 1856.

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border - 'London's lost route to the sea'. The church of St John the Baptist was built in 1898.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

This shows a dramatic change from earlier photographs of the Square, largely due to the spread of the internal combustion engine.

Many artefacts have been since found within the site of the fort. Archaeological surveys were held in 1919-1922 and again in the early sixties.

This was the entertainment centre of the town. Around Ward's End were many cinemas and theatres. The Electric Theatre opened as early as 1910, the Coliseum (now a dance hall) some ten years later.

Among the monuments on the north side of the chancel is a Purbeck marble tomb with canopy and three hanging arches on twisted columns marked by an 18in brass on the short tomb chest.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall are on the right. Known as Over Darwen, this was a quarrying and agricultural area before turning to calico printing, weaving and paper making.

The land here on the corner of Paul's Lane and Sandy Lane was purchased for nine pounds in 1870.

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

As a youth the latter was discovered by Lord Lowther sketching its beauties, a chance encounter which won him the support of the Earl who cultivated links with men of arts and letters.

On the apocryphal 'clear day' it is possible to see the Malvern Hills, Bromsgrove, the Lickey Hills, Frankley Beeches, Clent, Abberley and the Clee Hills.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Romantically named for the sea breaking across its rocks, Dancing Ledge is a mile south of Langton Matravers village.

The late owner, Captain George Pitt-Rivers of Hinton St Mary, left instructions for it to be sold in small lots so that individual tenants could acquire their homes.

This end of the church is in three parts, as we can tell by the three apex roofs.