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The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Leez Priory was a house of Austin canons, founded in the 12th century. After the Dissolution it fell to Lord Rich, who built a new mansion on the site in 1536.

The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.

This photograph shows the range of substantial brick-fronted Georgian houses at the north end.

This five-storey L-plan tower house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

The house and shop to the left have been demolished. Off to the left are the first rural council houses in England, built in 1893.

The Palladian-style building on the extreme left of the picture houses the Council offices; the town's court house was formerly here.

The house on the left - The Laurels - is now, indeed, called Pond House.

These early industrial houses no longer remain, but the Britannia Inn, where the workers drank, has survived from the 1840s. The Bridge End public house (right) has much more recent origins.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

The Court House gets its name because it was once, in the 16th century, the home of a leading lawyer and speaker in the House of Commons.

The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.

In 1837, the White Horse was just a small beer house. It was recorded as 'a cottage and a garden owned by John Marshall of Hitchin and occupied by Sarah Buckle, widow'.

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

The house to the left of the Gate is an integral part of the wall. The house facing the photographer was built in the 18th century by John Talman, the Vicar Choral.

A fine view of a house whose gardens were compared by John Aubrey with 'the kingdom of heaven'.

The Reindeer Inn on the left was originally a house called The Running Deer in 1740, owned by the Dunster family.

The world-famous Feathers Hotel was built as a private house in the early 1600s by a lawyer, and no expense was spared.

Formerly the manor house of about 1620, this fine red brick building is now itself deteriorating. Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade.

One of the largest surviving 16th-century houses in the county, this magnificent house was owned by the de la Bere family until around 1831.