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The Strand is the site of Topsham's famous 'Dutch Houses'. They were built between 1680 and 1730 from Dutch brick, which was brought over as ballast in ships which docked to load Exeter cloth.

Newquay had a lifeboat from 1860, and a new lifeboat house and launching slip were erected on Towan Head in 1899.

New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.

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

Towards the end of the century many smaller houses were also built in Moseley, which became a notably cosmopolitan community.

Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

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.

It was the gatehouse to Battenhall Mount, which was built as a private house but later served as a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers before it became St Mary's Convent.

The site of the old village blacksmith's has been developed for the modern needs of visitors to the area with a filling station, motor repairs, teas and guest-house.

Eskdale Green, a stop on the popular Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow gauge railway, is perhaps best known for its Outward Bound Mountain School, housed in this former Victorian mansion.

The houses stand on a hairpin bend of the road that leads to Hornsea. There seem to be more advertisements for cigarettes than anything else here.

Many of the original houses are now blocks of flats.

Opposite Ludham Church an interesting row of thatched cottages adjoins two small Georgian houses, one with a slate roof and one with Norfolk tiles.

Building work began in 1573, in the reign of Elizabeth I, and the house has been the home of the Spencer family ever since.

Many of the houses in the old part of Aynho are built of local limestone, and most were originally thatched.

Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons.

The other mill had already been converted into a house by 1961.

Today, altered and extended 17th-century buildings, such as The Green Dragon, mingle with modern suburban houses.

The house on the right has since been rebuilt with dormer windows.

He won a competition for the design of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa, and became Chief Architect of Canada.

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

These are some of the substantial red brick houses built along the coast at Westgate in the prosperous late Victorian era—the 1880s and 90s.

Shelley is a parish north of Ongar, consisting of a Victorian church, a hall, and a handful of houses and farms. The Hall was built in the 15th century.

This is an ironmaster`s house, built in the early 17th century; it was the home of the Burrell family (whose heraldic device is shown in mosaic on the Burrell Arms pub opposite Haywards