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The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over Blackmoor Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

Church Street is busy with shoppers and shopkeepers. Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was known as Saltre in 1210, and had become Salterne by 1405.

The High Street again, and a much busier scene is shown. The road is the A30 London to the west of England road which, even in 1955, could become horribly congested, especially at summer weekends.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

Originally known simply as Cleeve, this village gained its prefix at the time when it was owned by the Bishop of Worcester.

The town centre was constructed on a plateau halfway between Laindon and Vange. The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built.

Tavistock, one of Devon's three original Stannary Towns, lies on the banks of the Tavy, which rises high on the moors near Cut Hill and flows into the Tamar upstream of Tamerton.

Perhaps the climb is worth it for another reason: the view over handsome Georgian streets and the vast green bowl of hills around the town.

We are looking along Grosvenor Road towards the A26 to Tonbridge and London from the town centre at Five Ways, with Mount Ephraim Road on the left.

The village became a favourite with artists and holidaymakers alike; many of its red-roofed cottages were perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs. It is also known as Bay Town.

Its training ranges are situated on the desolate shingle banks west of the town. Around Ashford & Folkestone

Leland, that great traveller of the 16th century, described a visit to Lulworth thus: 'I saw on the shore a little fishar towne caullid Lilleworth, where is a gut or creke out of the se into the land,

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.

Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

The branch railway arrived in Ashburton in 1872, but did little to revive the town's fortunes. Here the local policeman chats to workmen, and the main street looks almost bereft of traffic.

High above the East Cliff promenade are the turrets and flags of The Royal Bath Hotel, one of the town's leading resorts at this time.

Martindale Avenue predates the New Town.

The earliest residence in Rockingham dates from 1670; much of the village was modernised and improved in the 19th century, and then again in the 1950s.

Martindale Avenue predates the New Town.

Never a very large town, Sandy owes its continued existence to the strength of the produce market in Victorian England.

Here we see one of the town's post-offices.

After the railway came to the nearby town of Dorking, and also Gomshall, in the 19th century, Holmbury became a desirable place to live.

Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.