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The well-grown tree hides Arndale House and the new Cornhill development, but the ugly Town Hall extension of 1966 (right) is still in clear sight.

Nearby is Gaping Gill, which has an underground chamber large enough to house a cathedral.

One of Newbury's loveliest streets, Northbrook Street is famous for its mid to late Georgian buildings, and distinctive pink and blue brick houses above lines of modern shop fronts.

This is typical of the style of a Dorset village house, with low thatched roof and thatched porches. The sign on the wall offers coffees, accommodation, teas and lunches.

The Coffee Tavern came into being around thirty years previously - it was an attempt to provide people with an alternative to nearby public houses.

Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.

The window cleaner is outside a house which has a plaque inscribed 'Joseph and Jane Caldecott 1714', but the house is much older than that.

This part of East Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations.

The house is situated in the High Street, and was completed in 1596 for Thomas Rogers. Rogers' daughter married Robert Harvard, and it was their son who founded Harvard University.

This marvellous house has survived almost unchanged into our new century, and is one of Beer's oldest buildings.

This part of east Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations.

This large village with houses showing mixed building styles centres on the crossroads near St James's Church. Note the air raid siren above the door of the Old Black Swan.

This view, looking across Lower Close, has changed remarkably little since 1896; it shows how the cathedral dominates its surroundings, towering over the houses of Lower Close.

Under this neatly-trimmed ivy and bushes is the entrance lodge to Sandringham House and gardens, which were subsequently opened to the public in the early 1900s.

The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

The window cleaner is outside a house which has a plaque inscribed 'Joseph and Jane Caldecott 1714', but the house is much older than that.

Originally granted to the monks of St Michel in Normandy, Otterton's priory remained an important religious house until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

This building replaced the old one in Wine Street, which now houses the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society and Wine Street Gallery upstairs.

A great deal of older residential housing was demolished in Victorian times to make way for Cheapside.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

This substantial building now houses the Rochford Hundred Golf Club. Ann Boleyn had links with this ancient town.

The choir, the chapter house and the Beauchamp Chapel escaped destruction, and by 1704 a new nave and a Gothic tower had been built.

Next to Hilton's lovely church is the village green, landscaped by Capability Brown, and surrounded by houses dating back to Tudor times. Hilton sports a turf-cut maze as its most unusual feature.