Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955
Between the lions is a
statue of Major-General
Charles Compton, third
Baron Chesham, the
commander of the Bucks
Militia, who fought in
South Africa during the
Boer War.
Caption For Wadhurst, Castle 1903
This is not a real castle, of course, but rather a battlemented house of
about 1818; it was greatly enlarged by Edward Buckton Lamb, that eccentric Victorian architect, and others by 1870.
Caption For Wainfleet, Market Place C1955
Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.
Caption For Billesdon, Back Street C1955
At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned
Caption For Lower Swell, The Village C1955
The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this
attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.
Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907
Founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as almshouses for twenty-one poor men and ten poor
women, it was completed in 1619 in the local sandstone and is set back from the High Street.