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The village lies in the north-east corner of Hampshire, in an area of the county now strewn with busy roads and saturated with housing developments.

Folkestone was popular with authors: Charles Dickens rented a property here while writing Little Dorrit, and H G Wells lived at Spade House while he wrote Kipps and The History of Mr Polly.

The further one was J Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. The Greyhound (right) has been in the Howlett family since c1925.

Beyond we can see some of the 1950s houses fronting Main Street.

Both now privately owned houses, the building on the right was the village shop and post office, whilst the black and white building was once a pub, the Eagle and Child, more popularly

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

Initially a defensible tower, it was later given over to civic purposes: a court and a police station were housed here. Until 1974 the council used to meet in the room above the clock.

Initially a defensible tower, it was later given over to civic purposes: a court and a police station were housed here.

It is now converted to a private house.

She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr, a mere eight

This handsome 17th-century half-timbered house opposite the church was once the rectory for the enormous Prestbury parish.

If you need it, here is the evidence of unchanged houses over sixty years, although fish and chips are now on the national menu.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

Houses at the hardly-a- hamlet Lower Hilcot still reflect the general style of Colesbourne.

A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

About eight miles west of Reading, beyond the M4, Englefield House sits in extensive parkland grazed by fallow deer and beside a fine church by George Gilbert Scott of 1857.

In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.

Former mill workers' houses, now modernised, line the beck. Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

On the left here is the Maltsters' Arms, still a thriving public house.

The 19th century houses are generally rendered.

Located between the Cley and Kelling roads, this fine house is built in the neo-Gothic style and set in beautiful grounds.

In the foreground are allotments, now buried under housing. On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

In the background is the Milton's Head Hotel, a Victorian public house which seemed to be a fixture until the construction of the Victoria Shopping Centre.