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Built on a 1660s terrace, today's Cliveden is a Victorian mansion by Sir Charles Barry, one of the architects of the Houses of Parliament.

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.

All the familiar seaside fun is here: happy holiday-makers digging in the sand, deckchairs and bathing machines fill this evocative picture of Edwardian Broadstairs.The steps and the lift house are

On the left are RDC houses perhaps built in the 1950s. Further down, a large barn and an old house beyond.

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

Centre left at No 33 is the Green Dragon, a cider house, which closed in the late 1960s.

Two fine country houses lie close by.

It was in this house on the left that Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.

Many estates of what we now call social housing sprang up around Britain following the war.

Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.

Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

West of the church and across a stream is The Bury, the manor house until 1741. At one time council offices, it is now divided into houses and its grounds are a public open space.

To the left are the arched and mullioned windows of the 1661 Almshouses; partly hidden is Ashlar House, which is mid 18th- century and set at the corner of Pound Lane, which leads to the moated Manor

It was once three separate houses, Nos 8,10, and 12 High Street, so there are still three entrances onto the pavement.

Tynevale House was built in 1754, Town Head in 1796, and the Miners Arms in 1750.

The house on the left is still there, but well hidden by trees now. The old coach house selling eggs is now a private house.

The Well House is dated 1642. This view of it is from the footpath passing in front. The cottage behind the house was separated from it in the 1940s or 1950s. It had previously been all one house.

Though called the Count's House, this building is in fact a former summer house dating from about 1820.

In 'Pride and Prejudice' Jane Austen calls Hatfield 'a busy little street that leads to my Lord Salisbury's house'.

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

Uppingham School's Memorial Hall and classroom block dominate the street, replacing houses which were demolished in the 1920s.

This slightly severe-looking three-storey mansion was built in 1767 on the site of a Benedictine priory, long ruinous and partly converted to a house around 1550.

The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.