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Thought to have been built in the late 17th century, this fine old mill house, once one of ten in the Ramsbury area, was turned into a dwelling as late as the 1960s.

Behind it, its octagonal lantern rising above the tree line, is the School House, built in 1823 by Robert Abraham, also for Charles Francis.

It incorporated the original coffee house which the club purchased in 1770 when they moved here from London. The National Horseracing Museum is behind the left section of the façade.

Today it is a private house. The Lloyd family, who set up Lloyds bank, came from Meifod – but the bank in the photograph is the Midland!

The neatly mown lawns and carefully maintained flowerbeds surrounding Cheam Park House are viewed from the vantage point above the porticoed entrance; we are looking down onto the sweeping gravelled drive

All Saints' church on the left is a wonderful example of how churches can continue to be houses of worship, while changing their role slightly to suit modern demands.

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

The Quart Pot, a Baddow Brewery house, was where Wickford's Salvation Army had their early meetings.

This photograph looks across Mayer Park from the terrace of Mayer House. The park still serves as a peaceful oasis for the people of Bebington.

We are looking along Mill Hill Road from the Shippons, a large public house in Thigwall Road.

This village view looks north past Street Farm on the right, and although the big barn on the right has gone, the houses all remain.

Neat flowerbeds surround the drinking fountain with its quaint spire, while in the background, just beyond Jenner's garage and petrol pump, the name of the Smugglers public house hints at past activities

Set in the valley of the River Stour, its Tudor and Jacobean houses have been carefully maintained, and further up the street is the old Woolpack Inn.

These trim houses with their first-floor verandas overlooking the shingle beach and breakwaters, and the neat gardens behind their fences, present an almost idyllic seaside vista.

To the east of the house, the swimming pool, with its red-brick orangery designed by Reginald Cooper in the mid 1930s, presents a peaceful well-ordered scene.

The north side of George Street is raised above the roadway; at the left is part of Edgar Buildings, completed in 1762, whose centrally-pedimented houses close the vista up Milsom Street.

Adam adapted Palladio's own design for a bridge with shops and houses to produce an elegant masterpiece. However, it ruined the builder, and parts had to be reconstructed as early as 1804.

The building on the left, the Old Mill, is a house with an added balcony, while that to the right is now the well known Morris Minor Centre.

Immediately opposite is the Broadmead Hotel, later to become the Picture House (the Torbay Cinema).

The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors

This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

The George & Dragon public house in the foreground (left) was demolished in 1964 to allow very long concrete pillars to be transported around the corner.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.