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Here is a pauper asylum of gigantic proportions, built to house 1,000 patients and designed by S W Daukes in 1851.

Once the property of the priors of Durham, the fulling mill was once known as the Jesus Mill; it now houses the Durham University Museum of Archaeology.

The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.

It has a good selection of ironstone houses and farmhouses, but to the east of the church the settlement has retreated, leaving a series of earthworks to mark its former presence.

The building is surprisingly unpompous for the period and looks more like an affluent private house, or a village school, than a civic building.

The row of houses is in Passfield Avenue, so named after a Labour Party peer of the time.

It was later restored and now houses the Daventry Museum, the town mayor's parlour and the tourist information centre. Note the K2 telephone kiosk, a superb 1926 design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.

The Market House (or Town Hall) with its clock and bell turret was built in the 18th century by extended and largely reconstructed by Lord Chesham in 1856.

These fine tile-hung houses are crowned by elaborate moulded brick Tudor-style chimneys. The Shell garage beyond has gone since the 1950s.

In the distance there are Victorian buildings - the Bramley Dairy, left of centre, is now a house.

This view looks north along Godalming Road with the 18th-century White Horse pub on the right, its Bargate stone walls painted white.

Little Bookham's tiny 12th- century church and manor house lie south of the Guildford Road.

It was designed by William Eade of Ipswich, who used a variety of 13th-century Early English Gothic features, with a rose window in the gable and squat towers.

Many of the Georgian houses and shops are built in the red and blue brick so typical of Berkshire.

The houses all bear the signs of the Russell family's patronage following the fire of 1724. Cobbled pavements and wide roads are legacies of the period.

Their name lives on in medieval Kirkham House (see the drawing above) and Kirkham Street.

Behind the fence on the extreme right is Heath House, an attractive building of the later 18th century.

The rickety-looking oriel window on its timber props and horned sash window frames are Victorian additions to the centuries-old corner house, which was a shop at the time this photograph

Next door to The Saracen's Head is the Guildhall, opened in 1892 to house the city's administrators.

The photograph shows one of several good 18th-century brick houses to be found in the village.

It has a good selection of ironstone houses and farmhouses, but to the east of the church the settlement has retreated, leaving a series of earthworks to mark its former presence.

Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.

The building on the left is the Stop House, where boats would stop to pay their tolls as they moved from one canal company canal to another.