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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.

FEW PEOPLE would be shocked by the idea of a national poll, conducted by Idler magazine, discovering that Luton was Britain's 'crappiest town'.

KIPPAX was a small estate village servicing Kippax Hall and Kippax Park for three centuries before developing rapidly in the mid 19th cen- tury with the discovery of coal reserves.

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

It is a few years after No R87001 (above), and the High Street is still almost deserted - just a couple of cars but no pedestrians, despite the new-fangled zebra crossing.

It is the site of the first lock on the Thames, which has been rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock for the passage of pleasure boats.

It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.

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.