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The Bricklayers Arms is now a house, Old Brick House, its brickwork painted. The farm building on the left in yellow London stock brick has been converted into a house, Walnut Barn.

Next to the house is a flint barn, and to the left is another old farmhouse.

Round the bend, past the old garage, the A271 continues as Gardner Street, the main shopping street of the village.

The 1710 tithe barn became a restaurant with a display of old farm utensils, similar to 'th'owd tithe barn' at Garstang.

The gabled building is flanked by two of these alleys, Bugle Lane to its right and Olde Barn Passage to its left.

Here we have the old centre of the village, now by-passed by the main road. The Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels with its free-standing spire dominates the centre of our photograph.

This beautiful view, seen from the path up the hill towards Miles Cross, looks north to the Manor House (top left) and its thatched 17th-century barn (right of centre).

But in 1727, a company of players gave a performance in a nearby barn. So popular was it, that the doors were nailed shut to prevent any more people from getting in.

This road also leads to the remains of the old castle. This scene has changed little: the post office has now expanded to take in the neighbouring shop, but the cottages and barns remain.

On the village green, the memorial is mounted on to the pedestal of an old cross. The church of St Cuthbert is dedicated to that saint as he is thought to have stayed in the hamlet.

Other old cottages are opposite, from the Old Apple Barn (far left) and Little Thatches to Bramble Cottage. Pound House is behind the telegraph pole.

Behind it is Beech Tree Court, houses formed out of old farmbuildings.

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

It was sold in 1875 for under £300, and the sale included the old smithy next door. It was the setting for local author Derek Brock's book 'Cuckoo Marans in the Taproom', published in 1985.

By the 1950s it had become Ye Olde Barn, and it is still a restaurant today.

The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End.

Closely connected with the Bailiwick was the Box Moor Trust, which to this day is still responsible for some 400 acres of land to the south-west of the old town.

The River Bain flows out of Semerwater, the largest lake in the old North Riding, and into the Ure. At around three miles in length, the Bain is the shortest river in England.

Part of the old Ramper Road, this end of Victoria Road passes the Congregational church where Mr W Gornall was a great supporter.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

This town on the old Great North Road was specifically created to trade on its location by the local landowner Idonea de Viponts as early as the 12th century, when the existing Roman road was diverted

Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain. Here, next to the Ure, are mill cottages.