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This is still one of the main punt hiring stations in Cambridge today, although the modern-day prices reflect the passage of time - at the time of this photograph, it cost 3s 6d to hire a punt and 3s a

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

Barkway spanned the main route from London to Cambridge, and it was only the coming of the railways in the 1850s that transformed it into a countryside backwater.

This view looks along the north side of Market Square past the war memorial into Cambridge Street on the left of the Round House and the High Street to its right.

They began a local business, and in 1939 transferred the tapestry workshop to Cambridge, leaving the metalwork in the hands of local craftsmen, Olney and Newbury.

Probably its most attractive artefact is the building itself, which was constructed in the early 16th century: the Town House was owned by Westminster Abbey and later by St John's College, Cambridge, and

The nationally-known 20th-century author and playwright Thomas Ridley Sharpe moved here from Cambridge in 1978.

The line on the left, beyond the trees, is the London and North Western Railway Cambridge to Bletchley line that was closed in 1968.

Today, however, the High Street is again a busy thoroughfare taking traffic between the villages and Cambridge.

Churchgate Street lay on the main route from London to Newmarket, Cambridge, Norwich and the North.

It is the 12th- and 13th-century work which raises All Hallows' above the ordinary, but the restoration of 1874 by the uninspired Cambridge architect W M Fawcett did little to enhance the interior

The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.

Inside the gate leading to Church Place are memorials to the Hunnybun family; a branch of this family were well-known coach builders and harness makers in Cambridge.

It is the 12th- and 13th-century work which raises All Hallows' above the ordinary, but the restoration of 1874 by the uninspired Cambridge architect W M Fawcett did little to enhance the interior

He was three times stroke for Cambridge in the Boat Race boat, and gave his name to the University`s second boat.

This resulted in 1921 in the first council house estates being built off the Cambridge Road, just before the railway bridge in St Neots, and off Berkley Street in Eynesbury.

Plans are well advanced for extensive residential development east of the railway line off the Cambridge road, and included in this scheme will be new and improved facilities for St Neots Football

Its first coup was the very first Oxford and Cambridge boat race, held at Henley in 1829.

This 13th-century packhorse bridge is one of seven crossings near the village spanning Wycoller Beck, with older clapper and clam bridges lying just upstream.

W M Kirk (left) is now Ambridge's Fish and Chip Restaurant.