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This view is taken from Milford Road, with Farnham Road at the right curving past the former blacksmith's forge, which is now a cottage, The Old Forge.

East from Claygate and across the Hogsmill river valley, the route reaches Ewell, now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road.

Middle Beach (foreground) at Studland, is overlooked by the 1943-built Fort Henry on Redend Point (right-hand clifftop), which Canadian Engineers named for their home base in Ontario.

In 1899 the Board of Governors of the Grammar School commissioned the building of a library at the western end of the school buildings (left).

This view was taken in the same year as G66012 from the opposite end of the Applegarth at Whitby Lane, with the kissing gates in the foreground.

The small village of Trelleck on the Chepstow to Monmouth road is often remarked upon for having such a large church.

Dedicated to St George of England (note the full title), the parish church at Toddington is so similar to its counterpart in Houghton Regis, just a few miles away, that it should be suggested that only

At the east end of the Parade, by the last slipway, is the Island Sailing Club (left), which was founded in 1889, and is amongst the largest in the world.

County Hall was built in 1882 and was the administrative headquarters of Lancashire County Council.

The now-vanished Lytham Pier, built in 1864, was badly damaged by a storm on 6 October 1903. Two sand barges of 300 tons dragged their anchors, drifted and cut the pier in half.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.

Lord Nelson was a pupil for three years at the town's Paston Grammar School.

The Ordnance Survey maps of 1884 and 1905 show a massive loss of coastline along the cliff.

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

A postman on his round chats to two local residents opposite the King's Head pub (right), where empty barrels and several crates of bottles await collection by the brewer's dray.

Just a mile inland from Hinderwell, the village of Ellerby is centred on this late 17th-century hostelry.

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

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

Helsby's name means the 'village on a ledge', but it would be more correct to say that it nestles just under the ledge or outcrop of rock seen here.

HMS' St Vincent' (120 guns) was completed in 1815, but too late to take an active part in the Napoleonic Wars.

This view is at the less interesting east end of Main Road, away from the parish church, the moat, the Georgian rectory and Shakespeare Farmhouse, where the bard is reputed to have stayed.

The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.

Presiding over the town is the 120ft high pinnacle-topped tower of St James', which dates from the 15th century.

There has been a watermill at Houghton since 974. Mills were frequently rebuilt, and this mill replaces one that was burnt down in the 17th century.