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Central Park ran from Queensway to the back of Western Road, whose c1900 houses can be seen in the distance.

Next to the arch is Tim Henly, gents' outfitters, and Phillips Bros, house furnishers at Nos 5 & 7.

This beautiful view, seen from the path up the hill towards Miles Cross, looks north to the Manor House (top left) and its thatched 17th-century barn (right of centre).

Originally a Knights Templar house, it became a priory in 1337, was promoted to abbey in 1537, only to be dissolved by Henry VIII three years later.

Originally medieval and Tudor encroachments onto the old market place, these cottages hid the east view of the 1682 Market House.

Excellent 18th-century houses are to be found on the Leicester Road, but here we see a contrast between the thatched cottages of pre-18th-century date and the Rose and Crown pub, an early roadhouse.

forefront of the photograph, while its four stoney local worthies, Simon de Montfort, William Wyggeston, Alderman Gabriel Newton and Sir Thomas White, Mayor of Leicester and mine host at the nearby Horse

You could be forgiven for thinking Stoke Park looks vaguely like Washington's White House, for there is an American connection.

In the photograph it is occupied by Keegan's shoe shop, but it now houses an art and craft shop.

Beyond the terrace of houses, two crescents converge through landscaped gardens and woodland to the central bandstand.

Kits Coty House, a prehistoric burial monument, is sited on a crest of the North Downs a mile or two to the north of Aylesford village.

In the background are the 'stepped' houses on Port Hill, which leads from Cowbridge up to Bengeo.

A legacy from Allendale's lead-mining and market town days was that it was well provided with hotels, like the ivy- clad Dale Hotel seen here, as well as a number of quality public houses.

Here we see an excellent example of the Kentish oast house, which was used for storing the hops picked from local fields. Wateringbury suffered a remarkable freak storm in August 1763.

A new estate of large houses was begun on the site in 1932, but it was not completed until after the Second World War.

In the churchyard stands a fortified vicarage built in 1318, and Heron House dates from 1700.

The timber-framed house in front of the church is 16th-century. On the left, in the foreground, is the Ship Inn. The gardens at Spring Head gained a reputation for watercress growing.

The large building on the right is the Imperial Café and Grosvenor House Hotel. Butlin's amusement park is in the foreground.

King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

The River Ouse flows past the embattled rear of the fifteenth century Guildhall, built in 1446.

Perhaps the chapel was built to house the relics of St Edward the Martyr, which were moved there from Shaftesbury.

The Henry Cottages next door still stand, and only the two small houses on the extreme right have been transformed - they are now one building with a bow window on the ground floor.

While these were a thoughtful, addition, they did not always compensate for the anonymity that such new housing schemes brought.

By about 1950 it was dilapidated, but it has since been made into a fine house.