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Following the suppression of the Knights Templar, in 1323 the Knights Hospitallers succeeded them, holding the manor for over two centuries until 1543 following the dissolution of religious houses

On the right hand side, several businesses, including Pedley & White outfitters, occupy the Church House building, erected in the 1530s on the site of old tenements.

Further up we can see the sign of the Black Horse. According to the deeds, this was built in November 1843 as a beer house.

This view shows Blue Boar Row, looking west towards the old Cheese Market and the Market House at the end.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-century rectory, and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality.

Stile House is typical of the smarter villas of Regency Lyme. It takes its name from the adjacent Stile Path through the bushes (top left) from Pound Street to the Cobb.

One was Castle House, whose owner, Joseph Moore, was licensee of The Old Bell and mayor of Malmesbury in 1894 and in 1909.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-century rectory, and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality.

Later brick houses also feature, including the Blisworth Post Office and Stores in the middle distance. The corner shop advertising Tizer is now a house.

The houses beyond all have shopfronts now, instead of domestic windows. The house on the left, behind the Pre-War Austin Big 7, is now an estate agents.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

A new housing estate has arisen there, and a school called The Windmill School has been built.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.

Many of the village houses are built of the local ironstone; this gives them a rusty red colour, the same as the houses in Denton.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

The photograph looks at the original village centre, with the Old House immediately behind the camera, and the parish pump out of shot to the right.

No-one could pretend that this scene is one of romantic beauty, but this long row of late 19th-century terraced houses with its excellent corner shop has a well mannered charm.

The fine Georgian house in the centre has housed the telephone exchange since 1925, when it was moved from the post office at Mr Gotelee's shop in the High Street.

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne.

By the time this picture was taken, the arrival of the Metropolitan railway in the town ten years earlier had seen part of the extensive grounds sold for housing development.

To the right is the cupola of Cupola House. In the foreground Charles Tozer, house decorator, of Orchard Street, is at work on the present Saffron Laundry.

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

There are several 18th-century houses along the edges of the green, which tapers south from Pitshanger Manor.