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Driving through West End, the visitor is reminded of the Dutch engineers who were brought over to work on the fenland drainage and for whom some of the terraced cottages were built.

All the cottages in this terrace used to be the same design as the centre example with its distinctive chequered brickwork and curious extended porch.

The south façade of the house is built in the 17th-century English Renaissance style, with pedimented bays overlooking a terrace and lawn to a lake below.

Started as New Hastings by James Burton and his architect son Decimus in 1828, and later renamed St Leonards, this seaside resort is a grand composition of palatial stucco terraces.

Many of the wealthy clothiers' 19th-century houses were built on terraces cut into the hillside, with the result that the front doors are several storeys above the garden entrances.

We are looking back towards the Parade and Marine Terrace from the Harbour Pier, with fishing boats and pleasure craft afloat on the rippling water.

The terraced houses were built about 1906.

Both terraces have wide pavements in front, and the road is still wide enough for the cars to park on both sides.

The three terraces of houses provided accommodation for ship builders and ancillary workers.

The slope was dealt with by terracing the north part in front of the National Gallery in 1840.

The late 1890s gabled terrace on the right survives, although somewhat crassly altered, but there has been much rebuilding beyond with amusement arcades and fun palaces.

From Terrace Walk, York Street passes the rear of the Roman Baths, screened by the rusticated walls and corner pavilion added by Brydon in the 1890s.

The village shop (right) stands slightly higher than the terraced houses on either side, and all are built in local stone. Today the shop has reverted to being a private dwelling.

Instow grew as a resort town at the mouth of the Torridge in the 1830s, and most of the terraces and villas on the shore in this picture date from then.

Behind the row of terraced houses in the middle distance lie the Millbay Docks which were busy during the 1920s with passengers being ferried from the railway out to liners such as the Queen Mary and

Wribbenhall has a row of early 18th-century terraced cottages, late 18th- and early 19th-century warehouses, and a number of timber-framed houses, the oldest dating back to the 16th century.

Having completed our tour of the central part of the city, this chapter provides an itinerary taking in the best of the great terraces, squares and crescents that were developed to its north.

In 1899, G H Warnes converted York Terrace into Worthing's premier hotel, with a Palm Court sextet performing daily in the ballroom.

Looking in the opposite direction, away from the coastline, our seaside resort tour peters out with busy Victorian terraces and the taller 1927 building on the right; beyond is the footbridge across the

The East Terrace dates from Wyatville's remodelling of 1843.

All survives, including the terrace of boathouses and the central building, now reduced to two storeys by the removal of the weatherboarded upper storey; it is now the Richmond Canoe Club.

At the top of Pier Hill is Royal Terrace, so named because it was here that the Princesses Caroline and Charlotte stayed when visiting the town early in the 19th century.

Nash's handsome terraces were spurned by London's affluent classes, for stucco was considered common.

The road beside St Paul's Church has been widened, and in the process the pub has gone, and so have all the terraced houses that can be seen beyond.