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The listed Grade II* late 17th-century three-storey house on the left, with a magnificent carved shell hood over the doorcase, is Odiham's most splendid house.

The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst. It is now run by the Benedictine Order as a monastery and public school.

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

The third great project of late 20th-century Carlisle was the transformation of Tullie House into a modern museum and art gallery.

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

Thomas Hart established the first bank in Uttoxeter in the 18th century at the Bank House; the original safe can still be seen in situ today.

During the first two decades of the 19th century, the more affluent of Worthing's Georgian visitors often took over entire houses on a long lease, so that they could cater for themselves and also entertain

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

Many of the village houses are built of the local ironstone; this gives them a rusty red colour, the same as the houses in Denton.

The Victorian stepped gables, porch and Tudor-style windows of Old Castle House beyond mask a timber building of c1600. The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839.

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.

The house between the trees is Cosener's House, built on the site where the cosener or kitcheners lived – he was the medieval official who ran the Abingdon Abbey's kitchens.

This was a notoriously dangerous river; many houses well uphill from it have flood markers, particularly from the 1917 flood.

There are substantial houses with large dormers on the right, some of which still remain.

The small Cistercian abbey housing 10 nuns was formed in 1158. A tower is the only remaining part of the abbey itself.

New town planners distrusted the earlier, casual dispersal of houses and manufacturers along the same street, deciding that in future there would be zoning, with different areas of the town set

The Poor House (left) was built at the direction of Sir Robert Hitcham (d1636), who owned the castle. The gable wing dates from 1637, and the remainder from 1729.

It was closed in 2002, and has been carefully restored and converted into two houses by Robin Clevett.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

In the centre is the old lifeboat house with its slipway, built in 1903. A lifeboat station was established at Polkerris in 1859, when the first boat was given by the Rashleighs of Menabilly.

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

The school (right), now converted into two houses, was built in 1858. The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

These cottages, south of the junction with Hurst Road and built as a 15th-century hall and cross wing house by a prosperous farmer, had by 1907 been divided into four small cottages and given Victorian