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From the 18th century onwards houses and shops were built that were to bring the street its reputation for refined living.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

This Georgian building, photographed before it was partly destroyed by fire in 1966, houses the Polly Tea Rooms, which were established in 1928.

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

Leading away from the Market Place (the Market House is visible in the distance) is Silver Street. The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

The street is noted for its mid to late Georgian buildings, and distinctive pink and blue brick houses above lines of modern shop fronts.

The road leading to Chipstead Valley is dominated by Edwardian terraced houses on the right.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

The First Developments The first houses to be built were in a small pocket in Vange; No 61 Redgrave Road was the first to be occupied - the Walker family moved in in June 1951.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large number of country houses were built in the castellated style.

Sadly the trees have gone, along with the house on the far left, which was part of Sutton High School for Boys.

The view is little changed apart from the outbuilding on the right with the two dormer windows which is now a house, Tansy Cottage.

The shops on the left were originally dwelling houses dating from 1760. Note the wide pavements - an indication of the 'quality' of the area.

The attached manor house was erected in 1614.

In 1900 the house belonged to Sir Thomas Colyer-Ferguson. In 1953 it belonged to an American, Charles Henry Robinson, who bequeathed it to the National Trust in 1985.

The King's Arms (left) is a fine example of a coaching inn and former posting house. Stables to the rear were reached through the archway leading from the town square.

On the far bank is an attractive thatched waterside summer-house which also acts as a boathouse.

The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house. Further down the street is the gable of the Methodist chapel. In the distance is the sign of the Wheatsheaf.

The gable end is part of a 15th-century Wealden house. The stone was brought here from Somerton in 1713 on a sledge pulled by 45 horses to commemorate the Treaty of Utrecht.

The inn dates from the mid 17th century; it was originally a manor house for the agent to the Manners family at nearby Haddon Hall as we can see from their peacock crest over the porch.