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A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

This view from the water meadows is a very well known one, and relatively little changed today, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller – he or she would be able to see fourteen

In The Square is the Crown Hotel, a late Georgian coaching inn known in the 1890s as George Payne's Family and Commercial Hotel (straight ahead).

At its western end, between Shaftmoor Lane and Fox Hollies Road, there is a parade of early 20th-century shops, and opposite there is a late 20th-century supermarket.

The church has tombs and fine brasses to the L'Estrange family; it also has a restored painted screen and a late Norman font.

Causeway Cottages, once a late medieval Wealden hall house, are in the background.

Situated on the High Street is The Studio, a Wealden Hall House, with a later gable on the left-hand side.

The nave and aisles date from about 1210 with a later square-topped tower.

Porlock's church, dedicated to the 6th-century Welsh Celtic saint Dubricius, has a 13th-century tower with a later shingled spire which is curiously truncated.

A later excavation of the great ditch was carried out by H St George Gray in 1922, when he established that Avebury was built in the Neolithic age.

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

Gloucester Cathedral has a Norman nave, later Gothic vaulting, an early Perpendicular choir and a later Perpendicular Lady Chapel; yet these disparate architectural styles form a coherent whole.

Small, well-mannered cottages set a later 19th-century scene in the days before parked cars lined the roads.

It was designed by Halfpenny, with a later 1839 tower and square spire by Chantrell.

Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.

It was a Tudor building inside a later shell: those chimney-stacks betray its true vintage.

The Cock, run by H Painter, has a later door case, and Peterhouse has a Victorian shop window.

At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

The medieval church was as high as it was long - but a later miscalculation on the part of some 18th-century restorers left the steeple 2ft shorter than the nave and chancel.

A later view of St Ann's Gate, with motor cars in evidence in the street scene - now, the gate can be used by pedestrians only.