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It became yet another of Northamptonshire's boot and shoe manufacturing towns in the later 19th century and was greatly enlarged, with streets of Victorian terrace housing.

The house beyond, now enlarged, is the National Youth Resources Centre for the United Reformed Church. Young people can stay here either in single rooms or small dormitories.

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

Three hundred feet above the sea, this white-painted Victorian lighthouse housed a two-ton turntable operating the revolving light.

Guarding the entrance to Falmouth harbour, this lighthouse was completed in 1835 to the design of the Trinity House engineer James Walker, who also designed the famous Needles Lighthouse on the Isle of

The increase of the houses of visitors must tend to spoil the original individuality of a population, but in Hastings these qualities are preserved to an unusual extent, especially among the fishermen.

It was originally intended for Sauvignac monks, but by 1147 it had become a Cistercian house.

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for his involvement in the Yorkshire uprising against the Dissolution.

Besides being empowered to replace the bridge, they cleared away numerous houses near St Paul's Church and the medieval Guildhall in their zeal - no doubt the area was in serious decay.

The tower looks down over the attractive village with its timber-framed cottages and Georgian houses.

The rather good Georgian houses beyond went in 1927, to be replaced by Holy Trinity's Walton Parish Hall.

His architect was Taylor, from Bierton, a village near Aylesbury; he was heavily influenced by George Devey, who had worked for Meyer de Rothschild at Ascott House, near Wing.

This tall hall, 80 feet in diameter, now houses a cinema, but was originally used as a venue for the hospital's fundraising events and functioned as an Assembly Hall in the 18th century.

'The Oldest Licensed House in Great Britain', claimed the sign, 'Licensed over 540 years'. This is very hard to prove, as early licences were issued very haphazardly, and for different reasons.

As at Brighton, large areas of working class housing arose away from the sea front.

On the right are the ruins of the Maison Dieu of about 1400, possibly a small monastic house dissolved by Henry VIII in 1546.

The handsome Dorset House next door is dated 1705. The motor car has one of the earliest registration plates (London, 1904) and may have been one of the first seen in East Grinstead.

Originally Caldecote Towers, this startling edifice was a mid-Victorian private house, built for Captain Marjoribanks Loftus Otway.

An electric tram, bound for the Circus, passes the three-gabled, half- timbered and overhanging frontage of the 16th- century house where Robert Raikes, the founder of the Sunday School

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

The manor house dates back to the 13th century, and formed part of a large estate. Its most famous resident was the poet Alfred Austin, who was Poet Laureate from 1896 to 1913.

The homes of twenty-nine widows and spinsters, these pleasant houses are provided with a chapel.

On the right is a former chapel, or possibly a Quaker Meeting House. More recently it was used by Bill Jaggard for producing wooden decoy pigeons.