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The wooded Claife Heights on the western shore are prominent in the background.

There are fine views over the town and to the wooded slopes beyond.

Tackett or Ticket Wood is said to get its name from the nonconformists who worshipped here illegally centuries ago.

Alderholt is a pleasant place to visit, surrounded as it is by the woods and heaths of the old hunting ground of Cranborne Chase. An ancient chapel once stood here, used by huntsman in Stuart times.

The proprietor, F York Jones, used to advertise proudly that Cofton Wood Tea Room had 'special arrangements for supplying jugs of tea without waiting, even on the busiest days.'

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”

Highly-coloured and gilded walls and ceilings, tiled floors and exotic wood help to make it a romantic Victorian fantasy.

Note the unmarked roads, the shops on the left (D H Davies and M Woods) and the various forms of traffic (there are bicycles and motor cars, and a bus on the left).

They took their power from the Roeburn and Hindburn, and served several industries that included nail-making, hatting, wood-turning and sawing.

The village is certainly one of Devon's prettiest, not least for its setting, strung in a series of hamlets around the junction of several pastoral and wooded combes.

The school has been converted into a house by the architect Robert Wood.

This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were

By the 1920s, Fittleworth had become an artists' mecca owing to its pretty woods, its fine views from its commons, its quaint architecture and, it has been suggested, the warm welcome offered at the Swan

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle Top.

St Martin's Church, with its wood-shingled spire, has a tower clock surrounded by a quotation from the poet Robert Browning - 'Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.'

Moving north to the end of Milsom Street, we see George Street, another good street laid out around 1761.

Since the war it has returned to its original state with deer and foxes and a variety of other wildlife roaming the woods.

Rhode Wood, accessible from the Glen, offers many pleasant sylvan walks.

The wood carving in the choir, dating from the 14th century, depicts many fantastic creatures.

The beautiful Luxulyan valley has great rounded granite boulders among the trees on its wooded slopes, and at one point it is crossed by a stone viaduct completed by Joseph Treffry in 1842 to carry both

But the pond and the wooded nooks around Bonchurch are as great an attraction as they were for the Victorian visitor.

Built in the 12th century, the original bridge was of wood and was probably sited nearer the Guildhall. Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it. In 1565 the bridge collapsed.

Beach facilities comprise clusters of bathing tents and unfolded wood and canvas deckchairs.