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Having travelled by train from London to Gosport, it was from here that Queen Victoria used to set sail for Osborne House, her beloved summer home on the Isle of Wight.

The Hospital of St Cross was founded by Bishop Henry de Blois in 1136 and is the oldest almshouse in England, originally built to house, clothe and feed 'thirteen poor impotent men, so reduced in strength

The Royal Oak public house sold Henty and Constable ales. An interesting range of cars and vans occupy the car park.

Originally, development along here had been for residential purposes, but as early as the 1860s some of the houses were being converted into retail premises.

Rye House 1904 These are the public gardens behind the gatehouse, with its modern glass conservatories and colourful flowerbeds lined with benches.

winding lane, was captured from a point near the ruins of the old 14th-century church, which was partly demolished by Sir Lionel Lyde in the late 18th century because it marred his view from new Ayot House

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first?Earl of Lonsdale by Sir?Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

The Rookeries were the alleyways packed with slum dwellings which were giving Nottingham such a bad reputation for housing.

The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby.

Whitewashed houses and pantiled roofs characterise this photograph of the deserted Main Street of Green Hammerton, a small village in the Vale of York and on Roman Dere Street, just off the main A59 Harrogate

Next door, the Gate House Tea Rooms boasts some lovely 16th-century linenfold wooden panelling.

Mill House (centre) has been converted into holiday accomodation.

Notice the pitched paving in front of Parade House (left), where stones are embedded between 6in and 18in deep, a method used in the county.

changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House

The parish church is dedicated to St Modwen, the founder of a 7th-century Christian settlement at Burton.The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn,

One piece of history remains - the old Toll Bridge House in the centre distance.

His statue now stands at the far end of this path and facing the Houses of Parliament. The figure of the left is General Smuts.

church of St Nicholas and St Runwald.This replaced two older churches (St Runwalds and St Nicholas), but was itself demol- ished in 1955 and replaced by a parade of shops, known as St Nicholas House

The house sits in fields beside the River Arrow, away from the built-up part of Studley.

Horsted Keynes, situated on the western edge of the Ashdown Forest, has a green and an assortment of period houses and cottages.

An Austin A35 and a Morris Minor are parked outside the Devonshire Arms public house in the centre of the village.

The installation of hiding places in great houses had to be kept secret; usually the work was undertaken when ostensibly a major architectural project was in hand.

The installation of hiding places in great houses had to be kept secret; usually the work was undertaken when ostensibly a major architectural project was in hand.

This view gives the impression of a large open area with houses along its boundary. Over to the left is Wattisham Air Base, famous for its air-sea rescue helicopters.