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The parish church of St Leonard has one of the finest towers in the county; the spire is 162 feet high.

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

There was one death, the Conservative Club was stoned, and the visiting Emily Pankhurst had to take refuge in Banbury's County Stores (in the background, behind the horse).

Much has changed in this area of Hampshire, but little Eling, at the head of Southampton Water, is one tiny corner of the county that seems delightfully timeless.

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns. There are still remains of its Roman walling which enclosed about seven acres.

Sir Robert Lumley was granted licences to crenellate in 1389 and 1392, making Lumley, along with Raby, one of County Durham's two late 14th-century castles.

The largest producer in the county was Croxden Abbey with at least 7,000 sheep. Burton Abbey had around 6,000 and Dieulacres Abbey about 5,000.

Rutland is a tiny county, which seems, apart from blips such as the cement works at Ketton, never to have moved into any industrial age, or even into an age of mass communication.

(Courtesy of West Sussex County Library Service) Invariably, there is some sort of collective activity amongst the regular customers of a pub.

To the left of the Clocktower and the County Hall is the Jacobean-style Town Hall and Corn Exchange building by Brandon, dated 1865.

There was a public outcry, however, and the County Council bought the land as Open Space in 1932. Westley, or West Lee, was once a parish in its own right (Lee Chapel being 'East Lee').

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

The cottages down Abbey Street to the left of the memorial have gone, and the United Counties Bus Company now have a garage there.

Below the bridges we can see the River Mersey, which was the former county boundary.

The church was built by R K Penson in 1852, and it has one of the few spires in the county.

Chapter Four takes a tour from east of Stamford into the fenland of Lincolnshire, mostly in the former administrative county of Holland, very much the flat country.

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

Due to the lack of building stone in this part of the county, brick made an early appearance; several major medieval brick buildings survive.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

The County Council bought the land in the 1970s for development into the Country Park. The railway goods shed (left of centre) was demolished to make a car park.

It holds the distinction of being the largest parish church in County Durham. Dating mainly from the 13th century, it features an impressive square west tower, an aisled nave, transepts and chancel.

As the county and assize town of Kent, as well as its chief agricultural centre, Maidstone is also a busy market and shopping centre, and many of its older buildings are overshadowed by the commercial

Due to the lack of building stone in this part of the county, brick made an early appearance; several major medieval brick buildings survive.