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We are looking down on St Mary's Church. The distant green fields and trees are now replaced by in-fill housing.

Only the Priory Church and Gatehouse remain; the rest of the buildings were taken down in the aftermath of Henry VIII's Dissolution.

These immaculately thatched cottages still exist, although they are rather run-down nowadays. Today the three villages of South, Middle and North Littleton all virtually run into each other.

The landscaped part on the left leading down to the sea was obliterated in the ?oods of 1953.

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

The River Cherwell is quieter than the Thames; a popular run on a summer evening is up for a drink to the Victoria and Albert pub at Old Marston, whose garden runs down to the river.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

The latter's pier, however, was pulled down in 1960. The pier at St Anne's opened in 1885, with extensions following in 1904.

Down the slipway beyond the historic Ferry Inn, car ferries ply to and fro across the waters of the Fowey.

The Old Greyhound Inn is still in business, and the cottages further down still look up the street towards the junction.

Frith's photographer takes us down into the crypt of Holy Trinity church, discovered by an 18th-century gravedigger when the aisle floor collapsed beneath him.

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Further down the road we come to the Gower Heritage Centre.

The church was burned down in the blitz, but restoration started in 1949 and the church was finally reconsecrated in 1957.

Filey Bay runs down from the prominent coastal feature of Filey Brig which juts out into the North Sea.

Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

Note the blinds down on the shops on the right.

These awe-inspiring and formidable walls and gates were knocked down in 1934. At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.