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The chapel has been demolished and the road widened, although a small part on the far side survives as a private house.

The building to the right is the red façade of The Athenaeum, built in 1888, which houses the museum and a collection of fossils.

The original house was built for the 2nd Earl of Chesterfield to a design by Inigo Jones.

the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages and old houses

It has a thriving local economy, and the modern Elgin Mall shopping centre and new housing estates have grown up in recent decades.

Opposite the cottages we can just see the sign of the Load of Mischief public house.

Behind the yew is Mildmay House; it dates back to about 1700, and was once the rectory. St Mary's Church was designed by Waterhouse, who also designed the Natural History Museum in London.

The original house does not survive, but the great arched gateway does.

Today the allotments on the near side of Uplands School have been replaced by housing, as have parts of Rodborough Fields in the middle distance.

On the right is the White Horse Inn, a long-established public house where property auctions were held in the early 19th century.

the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages and old houses

The Parade is a spacious street bordered by elegant late-Georgian houses and stucco terraces.

Customers at The Red House could not only see its smoke but also watch a steady stream of vessels hauling freights up to Norwich. There is a fine church with a Norman doorway.

Hammerton Hall is really an enlarged and fortified farm-house.

Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone. The van parked on the left of the street is advertising Mackeson's stout.

The colonnaded building to the right of the inn houses the school bookshop.

The river bridge has now been rebuilt and widened, while the house and warehouse (right) have gone to make way for the by-pass.

The timber-framed and jettied building on the left, now the Charles the First Coffe House, is where Charles's queen, Henrietta Maria, stayed during the Civil War.

The medieval grid pattern remains, but here the shops and houses are late Georgian and Victorian. To the left, Wilson's façade is a fine example of Victorian decorative brick work.

The house with the classical pediment is Sherman's, formerly a school teaching English and maths.

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

The annexe to the left of the belfry is a 17th-century priest's house, which later became a school.

Though still fairly well-endowed with trees in the 1950s, the slopes were vanishing under the housing developments of Tarpots and New Thundersley.

Named for the mulberry tree that grew in the garden, this 18th-century Kentish hall house in the High Street was once at the centre of Snodland, where the market cross stood outside The Red Lion inn opposite