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The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

The view is northwards from North Street, down to the sign of the former Lord Nelson public house (centre). The garage of Northover and Company, coach-builders, is at No.75 (left).

We are on the navigable River Ouse and an old Roman road. The flint-built church of St Mary is over-restored, with little of the original remaining. Court House is an altered 15th-century hall-house.

Once the centre of the Anglo-Saxon village, the Green is overlooked by houses mostly dating from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The road was named after Viscountess Southwell, who used to live at France Hill House in France Hill Drive; the house is now used for adult education.

The car is parked outside the former Congregational chapel, dated 1822, and converted to housing.

Its most famous building is the Governor's House, a 16th-century timber-framed house with three storeys of coved jetties.

Grove Street runs east from the Market Square, a mix of 18th- and 19th-century buildings, and a mix of shops and houses.

The dark façade hides an 18th-century timber-framed house. Set back behind the railings beyond is The Rosery, a red brick house of c1750, which stands opposite the parish church.

The house is now known as Glendower House and is a guesthouse.

Although designated as the main entrance to the parkland surrounding Lytham Hall, these impressive gates do not represent the most direct route to the house.

Situated to the right, beyond the low white building (later to become the Captain's Wife public house) is Sully Island.

The red brick village, which has expanded to become interesting rather than beautiful, has excellent examples of Leicestershire vernacular, from the 17th-century Stuart House in Station Street to the

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.

This attractive cul-de-sac running north to the gates of Merstham House, where rampant lion statues guard the way, acquired its name as a joke.

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

The house itself is no longer the residence of the heirs to the extinct earldom; it has recently been bought and fully restored as one of Warner Holidays Ltd's Historic Hotels.

Here we have a closer look at the four-gabled house in picture 42179 (pages 16-17) – it originally comprised two houses.

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front. This building appears in both pictures.

The brick house on the left belonged to the blacksmith, with the forge behind. A house has since been built in the yard. To the right is the Grape Vine of c1520, with 20th-century pargetting.

The rendered house on the right, with its 16th-century gabled wing, fell into decline and was subsequently demolished.

On the right with the railings are two fine examples of clothiers' houses from the mid 17th century, re-fronted and altered in the late 18th century.

Seine fishing boats are drawn up on Porthminster Beach (right), and an old engine house stands on Pedn Olva Point.

The picture shows the headmaster's house and garden. Since the garden is on two different levels, it provided an excellent venue for open-air theatrical productions by school pupils.