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It is interesting to note that the parish church seems to belong more to the adjacent manor house than to the village.

When the roads became negotiable, a brick-built toll house was constructed here. It ceased to operate in 1871, at the time when most toll roads were abolished.

This area is still famous for its whitewashed and thatched houses. Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade.

It is now a private dwelling house; although the ground floor frontage has been altered, it has changed very little in other respects. The post box is still there.

Later housing faces Victorian buildings on the edge of this large village. In days gone by, Sapcote was a centre for cheese-making and the framework knitting industry.

This picture of it was taken in West Mills, where the tower and west door suddenly loom large between tightly packed houses and cottages.

The row of houses on the left-hand side are known as Cliff Terrace; they look across the sands and coastline towards Saltburn.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

The Doric pediment above the doorway of the house to the right reminds us of our links with classical Greece.

The church tower continues to dominate this scene, but the village has grown a lot in the last century, with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.

The Mansion House was built by Charles Welford between 1795 and 1808. It passed through several owners before being bought by the Grammar School for £187 in 1887.

Dated 1813, it had ceased work by 1900; it is now converted into to a private house.

In 1747 a valuable cargo of tea was seized by the revenue men and stored in the Custom House at Poole.

The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.

The barn on the left has now been converted into a house.

The houses indicate the line of Parkstone Road.

The library houses many famous manuscripts, including ones by Milton, Macaulay, Thackeray and Tennyson.

Most houses are 17th- and 18th-century, but over thirty medieval undercrofts or cellars survive; they were used for storing Bordeaux wines, the basis of its trade.

The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

The telegraph wires have long gone to be succeeded by other media, and although most of the houses in this view remain, the place is virtually unrecognisable and the traffic scanty: this

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

This attractive Tudor building is known as The Bell House because in 1525 the then owner decreed that upon his decease the money raised from renting out the building should be used to pay for the ringing

Beyond, the elegant town houses that once had rear gardens down to the river can be picked out through the trees.