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Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames,Trent, Severn and Mersey.

York Street, on the right to the other side of the Midland Bank, was cut through only at the end of the 19th century to improve traffic flow to Richmond; traffic previously had to funnel

He had married the daughter and heir to Sir William Chapple of Wonersh. The Pepperpot, on the right, is made of beams and tiles from Wonersh Park mansion.

Lloyds Bank used to operate from the house on the extreme right. These days it is a private house once more. Next door is the Catholic church of St Peter and St Paul.

It was the era of the railways that killed it off and for years it was abandoned and completely derelict.

The two gables on the left are part of a 15th-century house called The Chantry. The rest of the structure is Salters Hall, the highest quality timber-framed building in Sudbury.

Inside is the Oval Hall, where up to 2,800 people can be seated for concerts.The front of the hall still bears the scars of the night during World War Two when a bomb landed to the side of the War

Bottomley did not pay his bills on time, and sometimes not at all, but he played the role of a genial squire with gusto; besides building estate cottages, he also bred race horses.

Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.

Back to the west of Blindley Heath the route reaches Outwood, a hamlet on the edge of heath and woodland, some of it owned by the National Trust.

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

A church has been on this central site from AD 937. All Saints' parish church was restored in 1873 by Sir Gilbert Scott (he was also responsible for Doncaster's St George's church).

As with Inveraray Castle, the redevelopment meant the removal of the old village, which in this case had grown up round the Augustinian monastery destroyed in 1599.

St Barnabas Church was built in the 1880s to the designs of Carpenter and Ingelow.

Albion Road, the most easterly of the Victorian developments south of the railway, has its back garden fences along the parish boundary with Carshalton.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

Ribbon development of local stone houses under thatched and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close

The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

Here we see the castle as it is today without its mantle of ivy. It is still a popular tourist attraction - note the figures looking down on the visitors from Marten`s Tower.

Before local government was established, Shefford was fortunate in the action of a 16th-century resident called Robert Lucas, who left his property for the benefit of the citizens of Shefford.

The first Norman castle is thought to have been built in Cardiff in c1081 on the site of a previous Welsh fortification.

Despite being hemmed in by the surrounding hills, by the turn of the century Carmarthen was already a sizeable and bustling town.