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The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

Weymouth owes its origins as a favourite resort to the patronage of George III and of the rest of fashionable Georgian society, who travelled to the town to take up the new 'cure' of sea bathing.

Dominating its rather mundane surroundings, Holy Rood Church, built between 1883-90, was the inspiration of J F Bentley, later to be the architect of London's Westminster Cathedral, and its brickwork

As with so many towns to the west of London, Cranford lies on the old stagecoach route to the fashionable city of Bath.

We are looking in the opposite direction from 72955 (pages 52-53) along the Esplanade, with the tower of the town church of Holy Trinity to the left of the clock tower.

We are looking north at the North Lookout.

The main road from London follows the Fosse Way here into Bath. Trams, originally horse-drawn, once ran along the same route.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Most of the town's finest buildings are Georgian - the woollen mills and the merchants' houses. Bath stone was used for many of the buildings.

It sits comfortably in 900 acres of landscaped grounds, which were designed by Capability Brown.

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Now a National Trust property and open as a museum, this stone, brick and timber building is said to be the smallest town hall in Britain.

Although Wells is a natural seaside resort with a soft sandy beach and shallow sea for bathing, the lookout and lifeboat station in the background mark the possibility of dangers, particularly for those

In the 19th century this area was the centre of a busy coal mining industry.

Saltford's original village lies on a hillside tunnelled underneath by the Great Western Railway.

This must be the best-known view in Essex. Where would manufacturers of calendars be without it?

This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.

Clifton became a fashionable spa in the 18th century, and for a time even rivalled Bath.

This public house has changed very little - the white boarding is now black, and the poster for Greene King Harvest Brown Ale has gone.

The village lay on the A4 Bath road, but it is now a by- passed backwater with the roar of the M4 within quarter of a mile. Traffic levels are almost back to those of the 1950s.

St Andrews Church is thought to be the oldest church in Harlow. King Harold was the founder of Waltham Abbey.

This 204ft (63m) high obelisk on the south side of the main road was designed by Robert Smirke and believed to be the highest in the world at the time.

Just a handful of people and two bathing machines can be seen in this late-Victorian photograph of Stokes Bay.