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Part of Ramsgate's famous fleet of fishing smacks are moored in the inner harbour.

A swan cruises on the river as it curves into the east side of the village, running by a municipalised garden of finely-mown grass, and a statutory wooden seat carefully placed under the only tree of consequence

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Christchurch is the mother cathedral of the Church of Ireland. It is situated a short distance west of Trinity College.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

Giltar Point is an expanse of limestone projecting out into the sea at the end of Tenby's South Beach.

To a current inhabitant, the most striking feature of this view is the absence of houses in the centre.

Almost in Gloucestershire, Bushley lies but a couple of miles from Tewkesbury.

The township of Staveley-in- Cartmel is part of a civil parish of the same name. The name 'Staveley' means 'a woodland clearing where staves were to be found'.

Chideock, usually pronounced without the 'e', stands rooted in history along the line of an old stagecoach route.

Cattle graze on Emery Down's green in the early years of the last century, a more familiar sight then than now.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

One of its most famous pupils was the radical writer and activist Tom Paine, author of 'The Rights of Man' (1790-92). There is a statue of him in the town.

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

Many estates of what we now call social housing sprang up around Britain following the war.

The ancient name for the village is Barelegh (meaning 'wasteland'), but lush meadows now support flocks of sheep.

The abbey was founded in AD670 as a nunnery by Sexburga, widow of Ercombert, King of Kent; the original building was burnt by the Danes.

In this very settled community, very little has happened during the past forty years to change the appearance of either the building or its surroundings.

The manor of Offord Cluny was held by the monks of Cluny from 1086. The parish church of All Saints is built of brown cobbles with Barnack limestone, repaired in brick.

Clanfield sits in a valley to the west of the A3, 12 miles north of Portsmouth, and 6 miles south of Petersfield. Its name derives from Old English, and means 'field clean of weeds'.

Even the wooden gate (centre) is newer, but of the same functional design.

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

The years between 1904 and 1914 were boom years for the game of golf - a large number of both private clubs and municipal greens were opened at this time.

Behind the crammed Edwardian beach, with boats launched into the millpond of a sea, most of the buildings of Grand Parade survive today, the notable exception being the small gabled house, now replaced