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This winding cobbled street, edged with handsome medi- eval timber-framed houses with flint-faced ground floors, was anciently known as Houndgate.

The Chantry Café probably occupies the site of the priest's house.

Alongside it was the house belonging to the manager of the ironworks.

The houses on the left are extremely old. The Monkey Puzzle tree is a symbol of good luck and a sign of wealth.

The front of the chapel has been redeveloped; it now stands back from the road and provides pleasant housing.

To the left is the 1955 boiler house, with the top of the 100ft chimney built in 1918 just visible.

This is the junction with Mill Lane (left of centre) beside Roadstead House (right). Seahill Lane bends to the right, towards Seatown.

Previously, this part of Greyfriars had been used to house cattle and other farm animals awaiting market.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

Blenheim House contained the Locarno (later Tiffany's Ballroom), where the resident group in the early 1960s were the pre-fame Dave Clark Five.

On the left is Market Cross House, now the Smugglers Inn. This was once the home of Stanton Collins, leader of the Alfriston gang of smugglers.

Today it stands amid a housing estate.

On the extreme left, in Holden Road, is the substantial two-and-a-half storied Holder House, built of red brick around 1800 with a Doric-columned porch.

The building of Mount Edgecumbe House was started by Piers Edgecumbe in 1539 and remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Three-storied 18th-century town houses, including the bow-windowed front of the Sykes Temperance Hotel, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

The days when boats were pulled up on the foreshore almost as far as the front doors of the houses are long gone.

Trams, originally horse-drawn, once ran along the same route.

It was redeveloped in 1885, when the old Market House Inn to its left became the post office, and again in 1937.

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

He refused to allow the construction of public houses here; the town remained 'dry' until the late years of the 20th century because of his belief in abstinence from alcohol.

The first was Joseph Hirst, a wealthy Yorkshire woollen manufacturer, who retired here in the 1860s and built his ideal home, Thornton House.

This pretty old Kentish village of Saxon vintage has a lovely green (alas, not now as rural as it looks here) surrounded by lime and chestnut trees, some grand Georgian houses and simpler homes.

The Helston Customs House was also here, but it moved to Helford in 1822.

The Ancient House Bookshop on the right hand side is little changed today, although the wonderful metal sign for Reigate Garage has now disappeared. On the left is Reigate Park.