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Here the brickwork of the houses has been used for a very decorative effect. Notice the already well-established monkey puzzle tree. These originally came from Chile.

Looking north-westwards from Lower Yonderover Farm, with hay-bales in Mill House paddock (foreground) and the sign for the Star Inn (centre), the River Brit skirts the edge of the

This entrance lodge to the house and gardens was private until the area was opened to the public for the first time in 1908.

This road is lined by the attractive semi-detached Russell-built houses of the 1930s.

This lodge survived the demolition of the house to form an entrance to a public park established after the death of H J Stone, when his wife sold the land to Romford Urban District Council

The Globe started life around 1280 as a row of five cottages, possibly built to house masons working on the church. Three of the cottages were converted to become the pub in 1675.

Built on the site of a palace of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the present house dates from 1728.

At the time of this picture, Chawton House was occupied by Montagu Knight, grandson of Jane Austen's brother, Edward.

The other buildings are Bridge House and the Old Granary Restaurant (right).

A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.

The 'half-timbered' Wheatsheaf public house on the left dates from the 1920s.

The house on the right is Ferryside, which just over 30 years later became the home of the famous writer Daphne du Maurier.

On the left, a fashionable party enjoys the prospects of distant Polruan from the terrace of Point Neptune House, built by William Rashleigh of Menabilly in the 1860s.

Within the Leeds city boundary most of the open areas between the townships gradually dispersed under an urban sprawl of industrial and housing development.

Within the Leeds city boundary most of the open areas between the townships gradually dispersed under an urban sprawl of industrial and housing development.

The beautiful row of thatched cottages has gone, to be replaced by a rather uninspiring three-gabled house, and uphill from it there is what appears to be a garage.

Looking in the opposite direction from the Coffee Tavern, this view of Hadleigh's High Street shows the George public house and, further down on the same side, the White Lion Hotel.

A magnificent oak tree dominates the common land and the pleasant nearby houses of this little hamlet on the southern outskirts of Rickmansworth, where, on land to the south-west, the famous Croxley

Both houses in this photograph survive. On the left is Shore Lodge, and on the right is Evening Hill Grange.

The huts have now been replaced by some of the world's most expensive houses.

Sir John Everett Millais painted his famous 'The Boyhood of Sir Walter Raleigh' while living at a house called The Octagon here in the late 1860s.

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

Rolle Street was named after the prominent family that lived at nearby Bicton House.

One of the finest houses in the town and dating from the 15th century, this is likely to have been built as a priest's lodging.