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The view is south- westwards from Bindon Hill (right) down to the fishing boats on the beach between the boathouse and cafe, to Dungy Head (centre right).

Here, about a mile below Devil's Bridge, the river's waters fall rapidly as they travel down the narrow and steep-sided Clydach Valley to the Usk.

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

The sign in the top middle of the picture shows Timothy Whites, which was bought out by Boots and closed down in the late 1970s.

Looking west down the hill with some 'modern' streetlighting.

Helped by improved fertilisers, increased yields made farming on the Downs more profitable by the end of the Victorian period; however, arable farming on the chalky downland soils remained difficult.

Middlesmoor is one of the highest villages in Nidderdale, enjoying fine views down the dale, especially from the churchyard of St Chad's parish church.

Bonchurch stands on the steep slopes of St Boniface Down. Both the hillside and village are named after the Devon-born churchman who brought Christianity to Germany.

A scene that was once familiar in many villages up and down the country. Notice the petrol pump on the right.

A view down the hill towards the fine tower of the Parish Church of St Ia. The first building on the left was a Navigation School at the time.

We are looking away from the High Street down Chequer Street. The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing.

The most famous of all white horses, the Uffington horse lies on the Berkshire Downs near Wantage.

The tree we see here in front of St Andrew's church was an elm that suffered from Dutch elm disease in the 1960s and had to be cut down.

This sublime abbey, scene of many coronations down the centuries, is probably the most famous of English religious buildings, and considered the pinnacle of European Gothic architecture.

Part of it was a pumping station used to pump sea water to standpipes dotted around the town for Council workmen to draw off water to wash down the dusty streets.

Further down is the Rush Cutters pub.

Mechanisation might well have reached market traders, but down on the farm things were different. Here a sled is being put to good use during haymaking near Hawes.

Upstream of Tiverton, there are several weirs on the river Exe as it plunges down from Exmoor. The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.

Waterhouse, the architect of The Metropole Hotel, designed a splendid red brick and terracotta Town Hall in 1882. Tragically, it burnt down in 1966, and a modern structure took its place.

One longer tunnel is said to have run down to the beach.

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

It closed down as a shop and post office in the late 1970s. The YHA sign on the right points to the youth hostel that used to be at the end of Eastfield Road.

Further down, the shop with the clock and the 'eyes' was later removed in a road-widening scheme.

This delicacy probably went down well with Vitbe. Snow's is now a house caleed, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.