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The name of Ringwood Road refers to the early 19th-century mansion of Ringwood House, home of the Markham family, which stands to the north east.

This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

Parade House (right) was demolished in 1980 and sensitively rebuilt, with a slate hung front, as the NatWest bank.

By 1897 Jane Austen's house, on the left, had been divided into four - three dwellings and the premises of Chawton Working Men's Club. This had a Reading Room, and was 'well suppied with newspapers'.

Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it.

Tregenna Castle was built as a house for John Stephens in 1774 to the designs of John Wood the younger, the well- known architect of Georgian Bath.

A Friends` Meeting House was erected there in 1804: the tree-shaded wall on the left surrounds its graveyard.

The old station now houses a tearoom.

busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war housing

On the right is St Catherine's, reputedly the oldest house in the village, then Last's butcher's shop, once noted for its fine sausages, but now demolished.

The club house, with its central lookout station, was built in 1935. To the left of it, within the fence, is the warning siren. The crowds are probably watching the annual regatta.

building on the extreme left is Manor Farm, which F C Beazley described in his book on Thurstaston as 'a little gem'; unfortunately, it has been demolished, and a rather incongruous-looking building that houses

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.

Most of the houses are built with grey stone, and some are fairly large, as we see here. The pond, which was once the village well, is fed by spring water.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

Behind the row of terraced houses in the middle distance lie the Millbay Docks which were busy during the 1920s with passengers being ferried from the railway out to liners such as the Queen Mary and

Built between 1767 and 1774, it is a breathtakingly monumental semi-ellipse of thirty houses, with one hundred and fourteen giant columns to the two upper floors in its prodigious length of five hundred

Old cottages have stone-framed windows and doorways, and new houses blend in colour with their crushed Ham stone concrete.

Wribbenhall has a row of early 18th-century terraced cottages, late 18th- and early 19th-century warehouses, and a number of timber-framed houses, the oldest dating back to the 16th century.

South of the bypass are late 19th- and 20th-century housing and a large industrial area leading down to Eling creek. Nearby is the brick church of St Winifred, built in 1937.

The Great House Hotel on the left is now much extended, and the church tower is largely concealed by more mature trees.