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It stands on the site of the original priory and of the 17th-century manor house that succeeded it. Stonework from both buildings is incorporated into the structure.

The cottage now houses a tea room.

Situated near where Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire meet is the pretty village of Lechlade, with its fine array of Georgian houses.

Brookview is the house with Powerstock Primary School behind it (left of centre) and Sunnyside is further up the hill.

Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.

The front of this charming Georgian house, with its bay windows and portico at the front door, is now obscured by the addition of a single-storey annexe which provides a riverside eating area for customers

The district has the first and last house and hotel, so why not a tree? The fact that trees are a rarity in this windswept peninsula makes this more significant. There is a low haystack beyond.

The Borough Hotel is on the right of our picture; this was a Dutton House. Woolworth's is a little further up the street.

This building is now a private house.

Just around the corner from here is the house where the novelist Jane Austen died.

The covered walkway of The Pentice was created when the upper floor of its houses was extended in the 16th century. Until 1279 a Royal Mint of the Norman and Angevin kings stood on the site.

The few houses that have frontage to the river would never have anticipated the growth of residential building that would later take place here.

This is an excellent view showing the protective measures taken to try and prevent the road (and houses!) being washed away by the more ferocious storms.

The now much enlarged thatched house on the right is the only Bridge Inn building standing today; the left-hand one has been demolished.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664. At some time during the 19th century the pub frontage has been modified so that there are continuous windows on two floors.

High Street runs south from the church and is still lined by attractive houses, some timber framed, others in Georgian red brick.

Village houses of different ages front the street. The thatched roof has a patterned blocked ridge. Next door is a small pub. The road leads down to the River Ouse and Buckden Mills.

Now no longer a pub, the Britons Arms on the left, built as a community of religious women in the 15th century, was the only house to survive a great fire in 1507.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

Many Georgian houses throughout the town remain, and its buildings are always worth a second look.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

The red-brick Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall stands at the northern end of Long Melford. Today it is best known for the striking Tudor Rose brickwork maze set into the courtyard.

The Bell Hotel was demolished in 1969 during the redevelopment of the area; but the dark building next door with the projecting upper storeys still survives and houses a wonderful old fire surround.

This splendid red-brick Tudor house was once Chillington Manor, home of the Wyatts; one of the family, Sir Thomas the younger, led the rebellion against Queen Mary's marriage to Philip of