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Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Between West Deyne and School House on High Street West, this was once an academy for young ladies run by Miss Jemima Adams.

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.

On the left is the 16th-century Old House Country Club, now Chimney's Restaurant; in the 1830s John Churchyard lived here - he started the horse-hair weaving industry in Melford.

The building on the right is a substantial medieval house with later additions. Gardiner's Garage next door, now a dress shop, was originally a maltings.

Formerly Garbrand Hall, this two-storied, five-bayed stuccoed house stands at the centre of the village, and was built on a Tudor site around 1775.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

To the north is a housing estate that replaced the army buildings when the National Defence College, based on Latimer House, closed in the 1980s.

The house is one of the very few left that are 'pre Esplanade', itself occupying the site of an earlier farm.

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

On the right we can see the timber-framed Tudor walls of The Corner House.

The roof of the New Inn can be seen through the trees (left); next to it is Wharf House, built in 1815 as the wharfinger's residence by the Company of Proprietors of the Basingstoke Canal.

The view shows the Rose and Crown public house and, on the right, the row of fine mansard roofed terraced houses. Each of the doorways has its own fine web fanlight.

Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

Built about 1726, in the early 20th century High House was a co-educational boarding school founded by Harry Lowerinson.

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart.

The name and licence were moved from a public house standing on the corner of the churchyard and owned by the parish. The rent was paid to the Overseer for the relief of the poor.