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There was a church on this site in 1122. In 1828 the present church of St Mary Magdalene replaced a small medieval building. The spire was added in the 1840s.

The castle began its life as a far humbler structure than we enjoy today, once described as "... a slender fortress of stakes and earth".

Webber's Post 1923 From near Luccombe the road climbs through Horner Woods to Webber's Post on Luccombe Hill and onto the wildest parts of Exmoor.

Admiral George Anson, born here in 1697, commanded the HMS 'Centurion' on a voyage around the world between 1740 and 1744.

Kathleen Marian Peek, who died in 1952, was the last member of the family to be buried here.

We view the keep through the postern gate to the northern end of the castle site. Inside the bailey the keep appears much more complete than it actually is.

Teddington remained a rural farming area until the arrival of the railway in 1863. New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

Victorian visitors came to look at old rural England - so different to their world in the overcrowded working cities of the West Riding.

This lovely view of the Promenade looks north towards Hest Bank, with the Central Pier in the background.

This view looks north-eastwards from East Cliff, over the older administrative and commercial heart of what used to be called Bridport Harbour.

Further north, at the A245 Parvis Road junction, the photographer looks back down High Road with Lloyds TSB on the left and the Dutch-gabled fire station of 1885 on the right, complete with its siren

This chapter finishes across the next valley and up on the chalk ridge at Warlingham, 600 feet above sea level.

Situated between the River Thames and Quarry Woods, made famous in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', Bisham is one of Berkshire's most historic villages.

The Commercial Hotel provides an interesting backdrop to part of this port's fishing fleet, lying easily at their moorings.

The lane leading north from the A283 passes Fittleworth House, whose east front can be seen beyond a stone wall and piers at the end of a rectangular close, now superb gardens.

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

At the time of this photograph, the statue and its pier and chain railings is still crisp and fresh-looking, and the replanted limes are young.

To the right of County Hall is the Bell Hotel, a Regency building which was recast in 1919 with the addition of a dormered roof storey.

Ellesmere Port was created when the Earl of Ellesmere constructed a canal from Ellesmere in Shropshire to meet the River Mersey.

An excellent example of co-operation between bargees on the busy canal network. The two central barges have been lashed together in order to bypass those moored alongside the canal bank.

It is the calm before the storm of the modern motor age, though a delivery lorry on the bend presents quite an obstruction.

During the reign of King John, the castle was a royal arsenal, manufacturing 109,000 crossbow quarrels.

During the reign of King John, the castle was a royal arsenal, manufacturing 109,000 crossbow quarrels.

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.