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The road to the right leads to the railway station, but directly along the leafy street is The Spa, a particularly popular hydro.

This view of the path into Stamford from Station Road shows the old George Bridge over the River Welland before it was replaced in 1978.

Horley was a series of hamlets on the London to Brighton Road which only began to expand when the London to Brighton railway arrived in 1841.

The new A55 road tunnel beneath the river diverts through-traffic from its streets. The quay is busy today with pleasure craft, rather than the commercial traffic of the past.

Across the Arun we head north to Fittleworth, a village running north from the River Rother up to the Petworth to Pulborough road, now the A283.

This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.

Bolney is a quiet village, located just off the main London to Brighton trunk road.

An obtrusive clutter of tall poles lines the road, and a modern concrete street lamp does little to enhance the scene. The roadside has been cleared up considerably in recent years.

The main road is busy with traffic - here an Austin A40 car heads out along the coast road.

The link between London Road and Gallowtree Gate, this short north-south road is visually of the later 19th century.

The foundation stone was laid here on 15 May 1869, when it was anticipated that Heywood Road would go through to Heywood, but a large bog prevented this and the church remained on a quiet road.

When the stone-chip roads were smooth enough, the bicycle was useful for local personal travel. Motor transport came along with smoother roads, and enabled more journeys to the towns.

The spacious rectory is situated across the road from the church on Scale Hill. The old rectory was higher up the hill on the same side and facing the Market Place.

The enamel signs would make a modern bric-a-brac dealer drool, and the lorry is loaded with hessian grain sacks open to the sun.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green.This stretch of road has a history all of its own. In 1826 J C Macadam laid a new road surface here as a trial.

The Visitation Convent in Pymore Road, opposite the junction with Coneygar Road, is shown here from the potato patch behind it.

In the middle of the road two young men, one with a bike, chat together.

The few aerials on the chimneys in Newport Road show that TV ownership - or rental - had made little impact by 1960.

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

The lane by the church climbs past the 1847 village school, also by Scott, to the main road from Abingdon.

The High Street, which forms part of the Roman Watling Street, has been devastated by road widening in the 1930s.

The market town of Baldock developed at the junction of a Roman road and the ancient Icknield Way in the mid 1100s.

Situated in Upper Wharfedale on the road between Grassington and Aysgarth, the village was already a favourite with walkers when this photograph was taken.

Somersham stretches for about a mile along a kink in the road between St Ives and Chatteris. The village was once celebrated for its mineral spa.