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Built to an original design by Sir Christopher Wren, it is believed that Aspley House's chequered history includes a spell as an outpost of the work of the Special Operations Executive during World War

These 18th-century properties are undoubtedly some that were part of the benefit bestowed by the Moore family in Aspley.

These opposing views of the town centre illustrate the character and quality of life in Aspley Guise.

The developers seem to have got the balance right at the Ashley Centre, built in 1984.

A good bathing day beneath Appley Cliffs, which give shelter to Shanklin's southern beaches.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly’s great houses to survive.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly's great houses to survive.

Apsley Mills came under the technical control of the Ministry of Munitions and Nash Mills made mortar bombs and small shells.

Old Place is a 15th- century manor house that was the home of the Apsley family.

This Italianate mansion was built c1860 for Mr Eley, the cartridge manufacturer, and was known locally as 'Eley Cathedral'.

Prussian-born George Muller arrived in Bristol in 1833 and three years later started building five orphanages on this site at Ashley Down.

When Lord Ashley married Harriet Chichester, the only surviving child and heiress of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, his father may have made it plain that if he was to become an Irish landlord he would

Frogmore Mill, together with The Cottage, extended in 1927 to become the new boardroom for Apsley Mill, has survived to be transformed into a new venture, the Apsley Paper Trail.

The red brick Ashley House, with the large white gable (centre), was built for Joseph Simpson in 1875; due to its cost, it was known as Simpson's Folly.

It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home.

On the left all the buildings are timber-framed, although several have later brick frontages: for example the grocer's shop, now Gavin Ashley's, is dated 1835.

at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The Spread Eagle, prominent on the corner of Ashley

The mill was one of the two main Hertfordshire paper works (the other was at Nash and Apsley Mills in the west of the county), but it fell into decline and is now a private residence.

Rifleman in East Street, a Canadian soldier was arrested and taken to the police station in Ashley Road, despite the complaints of his friends.

To the north is the old town of Hemel Hempstead, to the west lies Boxmoor, which derives its name from the moor, with Apsley established to the south.

This was requisitioned for the Ashley Centre - the building is now part of W H Smith Ltd - and Bredero, the developers, undertook to provide new premises.

Lester Bowden died in 1980, leaving his sons Richard and Warwick in charge of the rebuilding programme occasioned by the Ashley Centre.