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A young James Cook started his working life here as an apprentice grocer, before the lure of the sea took him around the world on his voyages of discovery. Coastal Yorkshire

A little south-west of Witley, the route passes the tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub on the A286 Haslemere Road; it stands opposite the village cricket ground with the 1923 village hall.

The 'burn' part of the name comes from the stream which runs through the village.The 'chat' part is either an Old English personal name 'Ceatta', or the word 'ceat', which means 'piece of wet ground

The Vale of Berkeley has long been a rich agricultural area.

The charming central Green is overlooked by houses and shops, most of which were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries when local merchants invested wealth made in the maritime

Each week, on market day, colourful stalls line the pavements of the High Street, and shoppers come from all over East Devon as they have for centuries.

It was erected in 1856-60 at a cost of £60,000 for Lady Willoughby de Broke as a memorial to her husband.

The church was restored in the 1860s and boasts wall paintings on the north wall of the nave.

Fortunately, this blot on the landscape has now been flushed away. The market continues, but it is now more of a flea market and car-boot sale.

This is the Abergwesyn pass through the mountains to the east of Tregaron.

It was probably built in the 13th century, when the town of Swavesey was first established. It fell out of use when the St Ives to Cambridge railway was built in c1850.

Ships of 300 to 4,000 tons lay at the fore and aft buoys in the river, while others tied up at wharves.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

The village is now a faceless sort of place, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

The parish itself included the outlying villages of Bickerstaffe, Burscough, Lathom, Scarisbrick and Skelmersdale; the population of Ormskirk itself grew from 2,554 in 1801 to 3,838 in 1821.

The college later moved into a new building on Oxford Road which had been designed by Alfred Waterhouse, winner of the competition to design Manchester Town Hall.

Dr William Stanley Goddard, headmaster of Winchester College, retired to Andover in 1809.

The sunshine picks out the white walls of rock chalk of this fine Edwardian house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with planting and landscaping by Gerturde Jekyll.

The village is more well-known for its much-visited stately home, Penshurst Place - its entrance arch can be seen at the bottom of the lane.

The 'Cuckoo Trail' for cyclists, walkers and the disabled connects Horam to Heathfield and Polegate via the route of an old railway.

This famous resort on the Holyhead road, in the narrow, deeply-glaciated valley of the river Conwy, became popular when it was reached by the railway in Victorian times.

Taw Vale Parade is to the right of the Albert Clock, whose building was started in 1862 and not completed until a decade later; the money came from public subscription.

Here we have a panoramic view of this industrial town. Note the congested, terraced housing typical of communities like this, which developed in the 19th century wherever industry took hold.

Its church disappeared from the cliffs into the ever-encroaching sea in the reign of Richard II. Another was built, and that too was a ruin for a number of years – it has since been restored.