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Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

The diarist John Evelyn described the 'delicious streames and venerable Woods' around Wotton.

Lodge Hill was then a bare hill, but the Baron imported vast numbers of mature trees to give it its present wooded character; teams of horses toiled from far and wide to haul the trees to their destination

Cottages, the Grapes Inn, the church and the school are facing or clustered round the green. An old resident, Mrs Lancaster, had a fund of memories. She was a Rose Queen one Club Day.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

He won the Battle of the Falklands in 1914, and also began the setting up of a fund to preserve the 'Victory' in 1920.

It is thought to have started life as a farmhouse, and was possibly owned by John Thurloe, Oliver Cromwell's Secretary of State. The Courbold-Ellises owned it until the 1930s, when it became a hotel.

We are looking eastwards along gated Ware Lane (centre) to Golden Cap (skyline, centre right) and Lyme Bay (right).

Thank goodness for signposts, as they were (and still are) a necessity when travelling though these rural areas.

Almost certainly a race or regatta is in progress, as the distinctive boats of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club pose gracefully against the wooded shoreline.

Silverdale is a beautiful limestone village in the midst of woods and craggy outcrops.

A church existed on this site at the time of William the Conqueror, and the Domesday survey lists its patron as Roger de Poictou.

Not far from Stroud, the village of Chalford clings to the steep wooded hillside of the Golden Valley.

Still pleasantly rural, with views of woods and the distant Bowland Fells, this village stands near Wennington Hall, where Peter Hesketh, founder of Fleetwood-on-Wyre was born.

In the background are the romantic ruins of the Augustinian priory, and to the right are the tumbling waters of the River Wharfe.

Moor Park was always a popular place for children, and I bet our young ladies in the picture had had a smashing time.

Moor Park was always a popular place for children, and I bet our young ladies in the picture had had a smashing time.

This is a fine example of Bridport`s eastern countryside, with the Dorset Downs falling away into the Marshwood Vale (far left) from the heights of Eggardon Hill and woods of Knowle Hill (left),

This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford

In the background are the romantic ruins of the Augustinian priory, and to the right are the tumbling waters of the River Wharfe.

The north-east quarter of Overstone Park is heavily wooded.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet moat

Today, however, the valley is thickly wooded and it would be impossible to hold a concert here. Instead the hill is now an important nature reserve.

The fine avenue of box trees was removed - box wood was in great demand by the Luton hat makers for use as blocking moulds - and houses and shops were built.