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The remnants were demolished in 1964 and replaced by a housing estate.

The Nag's Head public house was one of many around Stafford controlled by Joule's Brewery of Stone, established in the 18th century and closed in 1972.

With declining congregations, it closed in 1976 and was later demolished to make way for a Sheltered Housing scheme.

The centre of the village, with its attractive houses round the green, is marked by a market cross reminding us that Henry III had granted a license to Thomas de Greystoke for a weekly market and fair

On the left is a corner of the Norman House, built in stone around 1180.

The Honeypot Lane Murders Just around the corner from this innovative, crescent-shaped block of 50 town houses is Honeypot Lane.

'The First and Last Refreshment House in England' doubtless took full advantage of the captive audience.

This is the monument to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, builder of Burghley House and perhaps the most famous member of the Cecil family.

The premises on the left include a tobacconist, a public house, a grocer, a draper, a TV and radio shop, a ladies' clothes shop and a footwear shop.

Such was the attraction of Hiltingbury Common that a number of roads were cut through the woodlands, and large houses were built here with reasonably large gardens in a pleasant woodland setting.

Today the upper floor is used as a Heritage Centre and houses a museum that tells the history of the town.

Houses and shops cluster about the Town Quay. In the background, behind the King of Prussia, is the imposing tower of the church of St Fimbarrus.

This graceful thoroughfare of plain, unadorned granite-faced houses was built in 1795, and was considered the wonder of Cornwall.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

Slightly more visible is the toll house at the beginning of Wimborne Road to the left. Newspapers were sold there on Sundays when the newsagents were closed.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

As it housed both the Assize and the Police Courts, the interior is treated more austerely, but certainly no less grandly.

From further up the road here we can still make out the Esso station we saw in photograph No D31071, dwarfed beyond the Star public house owned by Brains' brewery.

The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.

The houses on the left are typical of the Wealden style, and H Kemp's Stores and Post Office still exist.

The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.

and Elijah Hargreaves from Rossendale were considered great pioneers in St Anne's; they later took an interest in Fairhaven, building the Promenade assisted by Thomas Riley of Fleetwood, who built many houses

Sometimes described as the county's finest unspoilt Elizabethan country house, Barlborough Hall has stood to the north of Barlborough, a north-east Derbyshire village, for four centuries.

One of the few houses was Hawkes Point Cottage, seen here (right) on the nearest headland. The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.