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The houses lining Cheap Street date mainly from the 17th century, but some are earlier.

The Bear is recorded as a public house and stagecoach inn as early as 1751, positioned along the then route from Stroud via Minchinhampton to Cirencester.

Northgate's most famous building is probably the New Inn, which dates from c1450; it was first built as a house, and it was here that Lady Jane Gray is said to have been proclaimed queen in 1553.

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

But Wilmcote was a quarrying centre, and this timber-framed house has a garden wall of the local lias limestone.

The outbuildings of the White Horse Inn are nearest to us (left); the inn faces the old market place, where there is another dock area for barges.

A pub of the old school where the landlord caters for everyone from 18 to 80, the Halfway House (right) has been in continuous operation since 1893.

The Co-op (left) now houses a fish and chip shop, and the small garage (right) just down from the Fox pub has gone, to be replaced by modern shops.

The local shop can be as important to the social life of a village community as the public house.

On the south side of Coltishall the river Bure flows gently through water meadows where cattle and horses graze.

Many of the houses here are built of the familiar ironstone of the oolitic limestone belt, which stretches all the way from South Yorkshire to Dorset.

The thatched cottages are no more; the nearest has been replaced by a no doubt very functional large brick house.

Limestone from the excvavated tunnel was used for building houses in nearby Corsham.

Built in 1785, it ceased work around 1885, and is now converted into a private house.

In the late Victorian era it became increasingly popular with visitors, and a row of boarding houses was flung up along its sea front. It offers fine sea views round Gerrans Bay to Nare Head.

The Esplanade Hotel on the left is seen here as it was when it was built in 1887; it was designed to be easily converted into five houses if it failed as a hotel.

The steep, winding stairs and the difference in levels of the houses show how the buildings cling to the steep cliff, the summit of which rises high above.

This parade was built in the years prior to the Second World War, as Pitsea's houses began to inch along Rectory Road.

The timbers in the Abbot's House, as this building is known, have recently been dated - the trees were cut down in 1457.

To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

Note the cross-shaped ends to the tie-bars which help prevent the walls from bowing out on the house next to the telegraph pole, and on the next but one along.

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

Chaucer lived in the house which has shutters, and a circular window on the first floor.

At the western end of the village, close to the popular public house aptly named the Shepherd and Dog, the Fulking stream still emerges from the downs over a small waterfall.