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On Ray Lane, the road to Lingfield, at its junction with Tandridge Lane, stands The Red Barn; in the 1950s it offered luncheon, teas and dinners to travellers.

Leatherhead is, like Dorking, a town on the River Mole, but it has suffered much architectural loss in recent years.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

This pastoral scene is on the Green in High Ackworth. To the left is the church of St Cuthbert, built in 1582 on the site of a Saxon chapel from AD 875.

This is the main shopping area of the town; the architecture matches the period of rapid development after the railway arrived.

Villagers call it the Square but to historians this is the Market Place. King John gave it a weekly Saturday market in 1215 with Thursdays being added by Henry III in 1248.

The Town Hall was built in 1826 on the site of the Exchange Inn, a property belonging to the Borough.

It was once thought (justifiably at that time) to be a large burial mound for an important Bronze Age chieftain.

The vicar of St Mary's, F Leith Lloyd, wanted a larger church for his congregation, and engaged William Niven to design this enormous church at a cost of £30,000.

The village is only two miles from Richmond, but it retains its rural charm.

The enormous popularity of messing about on the River Thames during the Victorian era is demonstrated in this scene of the crowded lock at Molesey, just upstream from Hampton Court; it had been linked

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures

Here we see the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered

This village comprises little more than this cluster of charming cottages just off Watling Street, but it has associations with two noted authors.

The High Street turns north, and it and the town end abruptly at the River Great Ouse, which flows through meadows liable to flooding.

Here we see the paddle steamer 'Brodick Castle' at Bournemouth Pier. She was built in 1878 for service in Scotland.

The wharf is closer to Droitwich than Hanbury, next to the place where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal (opened 1815) is joined by the Droitwich Junction Canal.

These Grade II* listed almshouses at Nos 10-13 Kingsbury Street stand opposite the south entrance to St Mary's. They were erected by Dr John Tounson, vicar of Bremhill, in 1682.

Bramber is located at the foot of a Norman castle guarding the tidal River Adur.The village was a popular coach trip destination from the coastal resorts; now visitors travel in their cars.

The road leads downwards and eastwards from opposite the Charmouth House Hotel (right), to Hardown Hill and Stonebarrow Hill (centre), where it climbs through Morecombeland.

Hockerill Street leads downhill into the town from the crossroads with the London to Newmarket road. Each corner was once occupied by a public house or inn.

The wharf is closer to Droitwich than Hanbury, next to the place where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal (opened 1815) is joined by the Droitwich Junction Canal.

The 17th-century post office stands at the corner of Bramfield Road and Mardlebury Road. It and the Plough beyond have today changed little since this photograph was taken.

Re-crossing the Trent at Gunthorpe, the route turns back towards Nottingham along the busy A612 to Burton Joyce, where the river sweeps close to the road.