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In 1925 the area was described as 'lined with houses of a superior character, many of which are retained by county families for summer occupation'.

The former agency for the County Fire Office is Rous's cycle shop (right). This was demolished to widen the road shortly after the photo was taken.

The expanding commuter village of Fleet has the largest pond in the county - three quarters of a mile long, it covers about 130 acres. The name 'Fleet' means 'place at the pool.'

Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as 'the greatest market town in the county of Hereford'.

With 2,500 acres of heathland, ancient woodland and wetland, Sutton Park constitutes the finest countryside in the county.

Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as 'the greatest market town in the county of Hereford'.

Like the later County High, it was on Easemore Road. Much extended, it now serves as a college.

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

In 1936 it became the offices of the County Council, having changed hands for £2,600. Since 1880 there have been many changes to the building.

The ball-finialled gate piers belong to the Crown Court's forecourt, a sedate Italianate stone building somewhat dwarfed by Hall and Warwick's confident Shire Hall built for the County Council.

Here in the far north of the county, 2 miles south of Great Ayton, stands this 'Gentleman's Residence', built in Georgian times for the Emerson family.

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

Broadway Stores is in Norton, where a large housing estate extends right to the county border. The stores is Broadway Service Station now, with a modern forecourt.

This is a strangely remote part of the county, whose beauty is guarded and reserved, although surrounded by the richness of the Weald.

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

Gainford is noted for its 13th-century church, Georgian houses, narrow streets and one of the finest village greens in the southern part of the county.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Dubricius (sometimes also known as Dyfrig) was present at King Arthur's coronation and was the founder of a monastery near Ross-on-Wye and several churches in the county

.` Inside the downstream parapet, an 1827 plaque threatens transportation for life to `anyone wilfully injuring the county bridge`.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.

It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A prison that has housed some of Britain's most notorious criminals is nearby.

These are attributed to an ironworker from the county, one Thomas of Leighton, who also made the grille for Queen Eleanor's tomb in Westminster Abbey.

The Hydro buildings are now the offices of Derbyshire County Council.