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We are looking down the street, away from the parish church, which gave the street its name. Church Street was never as busy or popular as Market Street.

The remainder step down the street in chronological order: later 19th-century shops, and the Bull's Head Pub built around the turn of the century.

At almost three-quarters of a mile in length, it was the second-longest pier in England after Southend's, but was damaged by a severe storm in 1978 and pulled down the following year.

Further down, a large barn and an old house beyond. A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden.

Her close neighbour at nearby Rydal Mount was William Wordsworth, who had his own pew in the church; so did the family of Dr Arnold of Rugby School fame.

The first tended to break down and the second could only carry eight cars.

At its east end, down by the River Wey, is a superb brick manor house of the 1680s, which has been much altered subsequently and is now divided into apartments.

We are looking south down the High Street, which runs from London Road towards the railway station. Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs.

Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

Baily's family turned down an offer to have him buried in Westminster Abbey when he died in 1844. Instead they chose a simple tomb in a Berkshire village.

They extend down to Devonshire Head (centre right). The view is from Furze Close, beside the grounds of Ware House (to the left).

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Apart from Westminster Hall, the old parliament buildings were burned down in 1834 and the present buildings, in Gothic style, replaced them.

It is said that a tunnel ran from the church down the hill to the old monastery opposite.

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

Betjeman and architectural historian Marc Girouard, who wrote that the proposed scheme was 'a classic example of how not to plan, for with steamroller simplicity planners would have knocked down

Church Street leads down to St. Mary-le-Gill church.

On the right are Elm Cottages, of which four were later altered to shops and one pulled down to make way for a new post office (1896).

In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the East Coast sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles, set alongside the marsh-lined River Waveney

Ladies would take to the water from the bathing machines rolled down to the water's edge.

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin. It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

We are looking down on Daventry from Newnham Hill, a view that has been changed by a pink rash of housing estates as the town rapidly expanded from its comfortable 5000 in 1955 to around

The impressive lozenge-shaped stone came from a surface outcrop of sarsen stones (the word sarsen derives from Saracen, and means stranger) which can be found on the Marlborough Downs about two miles away

The church was pulled down to make way for new development which did not take place, although at the present time a decision on planning consent is being anticipated.