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The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

It was in the 17th century that Greenock developed as a port, providing a packet service to and from Ireland.

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country. On the extreme right is a single-decker bus which would now be an asset to any transport collection.

The view is dominated by a fine 17th-century stone-faced house of two bays under a stone-slated roof, with substantial end stacks. The lower, later wing has been given a modern door.

We are looking at the choir screen and the organ above it from the main body of the church. The choir where the Bishop and church dignitaries sat was beyond the screen, cut off from the congregation.

This is one of the main routes out of the city. Behind the horse and carriage is the old Yorkshire Penny Bank (1895). On the left is the Theatre Royal (1864), originally the Royal Alexandra Theatre.

We are looking down Cross Square to the magnificent Cathedral. On the left is the Grand Clothing Hall, a well-loved outfitters, built in 1906.

Bedford grew up at a ford over the River Ouse before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the mid to late 5th century AD. It is certainly the river that gives the town its character now.

At the top of the High Street, the photographer looks south. The Lime Street/Lurke Street junction is beyond the Swan Hotel's handcart.

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

This is the original Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which

Between Soham and Wicken once lay a large expanse of water called Soham Mere. It suffered from gradual encroachment by farmers over the centuries, and finally succumbed in the drainage of 1664.

Raglan Castle is an imposing, solid structure and was one of the last defensive castles to built in Wales.

Moving south-west, the tour reaches East Harting, a hamlet east of South Harting, the main village with the parish church.

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

According to legend, Glastonbury Tor is Avalon, an earthly Celtic paradise, rich in fruits and crops.

This ten-acre park was purchased by the council with the help of donations in 1904 from the landowner, Mrs Maynell Ingram of Temple Newsam House, Leeds.

Chalk stacks off Handfast Point, the north-eastern extremity of the Purbeck Hills, display the dynamics of coastal erosion.

Within 15 years of being built the bridge needed to be widened so that today it carries four lanes of traffic.

The road to the right of the Three Cups Inn is St Mary`s Street.

Heysham became the centre for travel to the Isle of Man, and in 1923 the Fleetwood services were transferred there.

The High Street is distinctly low-key: the terraces of late Victorian shops are augmented by 1930s buildings, as we see on the left, and now several have been converted to take-aways.

Descending from Chipstead into the next valley east brings us to Hooley.