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architectural historian Marc Girouard, who wrote that the proposed scheme was 'a classic example of how not to plan, for with steamroller simplicity planners would have knocked down virtually every house

To the right is the town hall of 1867, now the Guildhall Centre, while the house to its right was replaced by a library and museum in the 1950s.

The mill, topped by a soaring chimney stack, closed in 1981 and has since been converted into housing.

There are interesting fragments of the priory remaining, particularly the transept, the chapter house and the dormitory.

The once thriving mill closed in 1947, and the Manor House, later used as a brewery, went in 1956. The First School and St Paul's Church were both built in 1838.

It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library.

Moving north, the route climbs onto the North Downs to Headley and the Cock pub, now called the Cock Horse.

When this market hall was built a number of houses, shops and even a church were demolished to make way for it.

The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.

In 1941 the estate was sold to Warrington Corporation, and the house and a large part of the grounds is now open to the public. There is also a golf club within the grounds of the estate today.

The King's Arms now serves as the post office and village store as well as a public house.

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.

Their headquarters, Gifford House, were just outside the New Town boundaries, a fact that prompted accusations of stand-offishness.

Irby Hall was built on the site of the ancient manor house of St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester. The building dated from the early 17th century and was completely half-timbered.

By 1945, preparations were in hand to 'redevelop and enhance' the village and to build new houses in the surrounding locality.

A central porch was added to Wren House, on the left, in c1975.

We are looking down on Daventry from Newnham Hill, a view that has been changed by a pink rash of housing estates as the town rapidly expanded from its comfortable 5000 in 1955 to around

There is some very attractive brickwork on the house facing the camera.

The streets and lanes here present a delightful medley of building styles, with their half-timbered houses and steep-roofed stone cottages.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

Donkey Lane and Dormouse Cottage (right) can be seen here in the northern end of the High Street (centre) which bends to the west beside Pound House (centre) to become Barr Lane as it carries

Donkey Lane and Dormouse Cottage (right) can be seen here in the northern end of the High Street (centre) which bends to the west beside Pound House (centre) to become Barr Lane as

The picturesque gardens of the houses on the hillside rise in tiers over the rocky cliffs, and flights of steps climb up into the streets of the town from the river below.

Consisting of little more than one long street running east to west, Glanton enjoyed a reputation for the healing properties of the water from the Keppin or Keppie Well situated behind the old school house