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The bridge boosted the local economy by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands

The iron choir screen which separated the entrance to the choir from the nave was removed in 1959 by order of the Dean and Chapter, presumably to give an uninterrupted view from the western entrance

The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854 and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.

First class county status was achieved in 1899, even though the county ground was simply three hay fields, rented from the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral.

The Dean's chapel in the south quire transept has a 13th-century frieze of carvings in the spandrels of the arcading (that is, between the tops of the adjoining arches).

Apart from earlier royal connections, the Queen's Armes buildings were for a time a school, run by the Congregational minister, the Rev Benjamin Jeanes.

Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.

During the early part of the 18th century, a local parson named Jonathan Darby from the parish of East Dean unofficially displayed a candle-burning lantern hung in a hollow carved out of the chalk

The school in the background was founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's, to provide education for 144 boys.

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

John Fell, one-time Dean of Christ Church, engaged Christopher Wren to crown the main gateway with Tom Tower, transferring the medieval bell known as Old Tom from the cathedral to the college.

Various benefactors, including John Forest, Dean of Wells, came to the rescue, and work on the college was eventually finished.

Six miles from Durham and twelve miles from Darlington, Ferryhill was only a hamlet until the development of Dean & Chapter Colliery.

The gateposts mark the entrance to the Dean's Court Estate - the griffins' heads represent the Hanham family crest.

One such attack was made against Lydney, where Sir John Winter, Royalist commander in the Forest of Dean, lived in the heavily fortified White House.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also Dean

When the Huguenots arrived from France, the Dean and Chapter gave them the Lady Chapel as their place of worship - it was separated from the rest of the cathedral and remained in their use until the 18th

They consist of three tiers, the topmost of which is for the Knights of the Garter and the dean and canons; the centre one is for the Military Knights, minor canons and the choirmen; and the lowest

Coleford and Cinderford, the Speech House was built in 1676 as the Court of Verderers and Freeminers - the place where legal grievances relating specifically to the laws and customs of the Forest of Dean

Immediately behind was the long established firm of Dean & Son, suppliers of garden materials.

The Rectory in South Street, on the south side of St Mary's Parish Church, was the home of the Rural Dean, Rev Henry Richard William Farrer, who was an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral.

Across Poole Road, the low railing offered easy access to the fields of the Dean's Court Estate.

Partly hidden from view, on this side of the road and by the dry-cleaner's, is the restored Dean Incent's house with its timbered frontage and leaded glass windows; the closely neighbouring hostelries