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The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s. It faces the war memorial, erected in 1921-22 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

Since this photograph was taken, the aptly named Castle Inn has closed and been converted into houses. It still retains its characteristic frontage.

Visitors are still shown the cottage that Thomas Hardy elected to use as the home of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A number of new houses have been built here since Hardy's time.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

Its 18th-century coaching inn is of similar age to the house of Thomas Turner, who built a folly tower nearby and shared with the villagers his pond and lawns, which became the large village green.

Here the village is seen from the churchyard, which adjoins a beautiful Jacobean manor house. The triangle with the phone box was once a grassy area where there were hustings at election times.

Trippers could take lunch or afternoon tea at the Holt Fleet or the Warfe hotels, and perhaps make a visit to nearby Holt Castle, a 19th-century battlemented country house incorporating parts of a 14th-century

As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

On the right of the picture is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

The houses here are very prone to flooding when rainwater from the Welsh mountains comes cascading down the river.

Horsmonden's cottages and houses surround a spacious green. The village boasts a wealth of old buildings and timbered cottages.

This house was built in 1787 by Sir Bourchier Wrey to replace a 16th-century building that was destroyed by fire.

The site of the old village blacksmith's has been developed for the modern needs of visitors to the area with a filling station, motor repairs, teas and guest-house.

A view of one of the city's best narrow medieval streets, lined with tall, overhanging shops and houses.

In the centre is the cable stationmaster's house, with its own vinery just behind the flagpole. The Exiles Club has now been built just in front of the original cable station.

The Strand is the site of Topsham's famous 'Dutch Houses'. They were built between 1680 and 1730 from Dutch brick, which was brought over as ballast in ships which docked to load Exeter cloth.

New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Towards the end of the century many smaller houses were also built in Moseley, which became a notably cosmopolitan community.

Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

It was the gatehouse to Battenhall Mount, which was built as a private house but later served as a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers before it became St Mary's Convent.

Between 1921 and 1951 the population of Lancing nearly quadrupled, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of shops, businesses and houses in South Lancing.

The Revolution House, formerly the Cock and Pynot (or Magpie) Inn, at Old Whittington, north of Chesterfield, was the scene of the hatching of the plot for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which aimed