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Leaving the sprawl of Worthing behind, we move west along the coast and inland to Angmering, a village much expanded to the north and east but retaining its historic core relatively intact.

Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

The 1880s was a decade of civic pride and numerous initiatives, many during the mayorships of the vigorous Joshua Hawkins.

The entrance to this circular natural basin is barely discernible from the sea, guarded as it is by two projecting spurs of resistant Portland and Purbeck strata.

The Perpendicular font, dug up in 1939, is octagonal, with a pattern of quatrefoils in circles. Parts of the west gallery are now under the tower, and date to 1706 and 1726.

It was originally built in the 17th century for Richard Evelyn, the brother of the diarist, and remodelled in stone for Lord Baltimore.

The new building on the corner of the High Street, with its three large shops and two floors of flats above, can be seen in greater detail in this photograph.

They discovered that it was difficult to grow crops on the often waterlogged ground.

These arches can be seen when approaching Sawley (or 'Sally') Abbey. Built in about 1890, one of them had to be removed years later because it obstructed the highway.

After the turn of the 19th century, Glasson Dock was used more and more by pleasure craft.

Ferrybridge is ideally placed for a major power station - coal could be delivered on the adjacent River Aire, and so from 1927 for thirty years Ferrybridge 'A' Power Station, seen here, generated

Mills crowd in towards the town centre, following the course of the river Roach and its tributary the Spodden. Textile mills reached their peak of prosperity at this time.

Stonehenge is the most well-known stone circle in the world, and this view is possibly one of the most remembered and famous.

Across the chalk ridge, the route returns to the greensand country, and to one of Surrey's prettiest and most wooded areas.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

The tower, which is considered by many to be a keep, was possibly built as a residence for Sir Otto de Grandison (1238-1328), the first justiciar of North Wales.

In 1424 James returned to Scotland after spending eighteen years as the 'guest' of the English court. He was also angry; angry that Robert Stewart had done precious little to secure his freedom.

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.

It is the summer of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year, but Lymm's celebrations are not complete.

One of these very similar views shows the town on a bright summer day with the road thronged with vehicles and the pavements, benches and sea wall busy with visitors enjoying the Cheshire sunshine and

The memorial behind the railings on the right was unveiled in November 1921. It was sculpted in Portland stone by Messrs H H Martyn & Co Ltd of Cheltenham from a design by Walter Cook.

The last of the five hitching posts stills stands outside the Rose & Crown, a popular stopping place for cyclists and motorists.