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We are west of Addlestone. Here the A320 Guildford Road meets the A319 Chobham Road and the B3121, Murray Road, from Addlestone at what is now a large roundabout.

All this was done at the expense of the local benefactor, William Gibbs, after his father had died in 1842 (there is a marble effigy of him on a tomb also designed by Scott within the church

The house, which was at one time the largest building in the north of England, was built by Sir Nicolas Sherburn (Shirburn) around 1690.The estate was left to a cousin (named Weld) who gave it to the

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.

The Bridgewater Canal was the first proper canal to be built and it linked Manchester with Worsley. It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn.

This wonderful view of the market cross and the High Street was possibly taken from Malmesbury Abbey.

The imposing west front of the Abbey is seen here, following the completion of its restoration 30 years before.

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th-century church.

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

Here we can have a closer look at the famous bridge, with a group of boys fishing by the bandstand (left).

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

Lancaster developed on the east slopes of the castle and church. This area was once called Kirk Lancastre.

The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick

Behind the Morris 8, Church Street turns to the left with Boots 'Cash Chemist' on the corner. Today Potter Street is one-way - the traffic in the photograph is facing in the wrong direction.

This pub should technically be called The New Railway Inn, because it stands on the site of a former inn of the same name.

This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.

The village green, the King's Head and the parish church lie at the heart of present-day Lanchester.

On the left is Walkers Stores with the tiled advertisement 'Provision Merchants and High Class Groceries'.

This view, with the Grand Hotel on the left, shows the extent of the beach.

This scene shows punting on the river in pre-war days. Nearby is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

Although built at Catsfield, Normanhurst was intimately connected with Hastings.

Continuing south-east across Ashdown Forest, the tour finishes at Uckfield, a town now by-passed and the terminus of a commuter railway line to London, the continuation to Lewes having been closed.

The foundation stone of this building was laid with two gold sovereigns beneath it, not in the north-east corner but at the southern end of the building, in 1889.