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was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool Hill

was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool Hill

The view from Constitution Hill across Poole and its harbour remains a tourist attraction today.

Hill Bottom (centre), south-west of Renscombe Farm is seen here in a view towards Chapman's Pool and Houn's-tout Cliff The slopes of the Plain and St Alban's Head (left) rise to the south.

A swannery lay on the wooded islet in the pear-shaped lake, and a paddling pool was added later.

This is what children of all ages like best: fishing about in the rock pools at low tide.

The main road from Poole to Bournemouth was called Parkstone Hill until the 1890s, when a castellated house called The Castle was built on high ground near the top.

Poole Grammar School vacated the building, which had quadrangle at the rear, for new buildings on Gravel Hill which were opened by Princess Margaret in 1966.

CASTLE HILL has a commanding view of both the landward and the seaward approaches, and it was almost certainly the location of an Iron Age Celtic promontory fort.

Again there are houses on the sand hills.

The zig-zag roof now covers a swimming pool, and the displaced bar is in a new part of the extended building.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene.

Again there are houses on the sand hills.

Schoolboys from Durnford School used to be marched over the hill each morning after headmaster Thomas Pellatt established the tradition for nude bathing.

The victims of the Kynochs tragedy in 1913 (three employees of the explosives factory were killed in an accident) are buried in this now disused churchyard.

Whenever a problem existed they would often pool their resources, with whole families working together to provide such things as footpaths or stepping-stones on the unmade roads.

To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

This little pool fills up with all manner of water fowl; it has become a popular stopping- off place for coast road travellers, who feed the ducks and have an ice cream from the van parked

The park, now Parc Howard, has been laid out for leisure activities with a children's paddling pool, while the mansion has been converted into a museum and refreshment rooms.

We complete our journey around Essex in Chigwell, with this view of an open-air swimming pool.

The paddling pool in front of it is a precursor of the modern day Sun Centre, perhaps.

When I was a teenager I remember riding out on my BSA Bantam to the Wimpy Bar on Box Hill. I