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Although it retains some villagey characteristics, and was once important in the Wealden iron industry, it is very much nowadays a small town.

Items of historical interest, including tools and pottery, were found locally, suggesting there has been a settlement here since the early Iron Age.

The cast-iron balconies were a feature of town houses belonging to wealthy families.

An iron works was opened in 1837, but it was the discovery two years later of ironstone deposits at nearby Shotley Bridge, and the opening of coal pits during the 1840s, that sparked off the town's growth

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

Local businessmen were also keen investors in the iron bridge, which opened markets to the north.

A rustic corner, with mossy thatch and a corrugated-iron porch lid, lies beside Loves Lane on the western slope of Hardown Hill.

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

The Culpepers built Bedgebury Park in a classical style from the profits of the Wealden iron industry. In 1836 the Napoleonic war hero Viscount Beresford retired here.

To the east is Markland Grips, an Iron Age hillfort on an outcrop above a craggy limestone valley.

Sad to say, the original 14th-century Saxon cross in the Market Square, seen here with its iron support, succumbed to old age.

This was the iron works that made such things as the bridge over Micheldever Road.

The iron railings shown in the photograph are no longer there, having been salvaged for scrap in World War Two.

Strawberry Hill, above the village, was the site of an Iron Age fort. A boat is being beached to the right beyond the slipway and the other boats in the centre.

The magnificent cast iron pillars held up the glass roof, giving welcome natural light to the interior of the busy Borough Market.

It was a boom town during the 19th-century iron-mining era, and takes its name from the remains of a 12th-century Cistercian nunnery, now built into the parish church.

The turn of the century would see the rustic bridges replaced by iron ones, asphalt laid in sections, and steps cut into the steepest slopes.

Our vantage point for this view is near to St Peter's Church, whose construction in the late 1920s made use of stone recycled from the defunct Cyfarthfa iron works.

The small boatyard on the right is surrounded with corrugated iron-clad buildings, whilst the stone building in the centre proclaims tea gardens on a gable sign, ready for business on this early spring

The pretty white brick station building with its cast iron latticed windows is situated out of shot to the left and seems, at the end of the 20th century, to be empty and disused.

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

The ancient Butter Cross became unsafe and was replaced in 2000 by a wrought iron replica with seating.

By the 20th century, Goudhurst has quietened down considerably compared to earlier times, when the iron smelting and cloth making industries were at their peak.

Note the cast- iron boot scraper to the left of the doorway on the right. Dinder House was built in Georgian style by the Rev William Somerville in about 1800.