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Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

The long straight high street eventually opens up into the Friday market place.

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

The brook here somehow appears to be little cared for, with its chipped concrete posts arrayed along weedy banks.

This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864. The windows are 13th-century and show a variety of designs in two-bay arcades.

The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.

The roundabout was removed in 1979 to make way for a new road junction.

On the right, the Royal Oak, the shop with the arched door and window, and the building nearest the camera, here Dolly's sweet shop, all remain.

This photograph was taken from the junction of the High Street with Bridge Street. The dominant buildings are of the early 1900s, complete with a fine set of chimney stacks.

The early 19th century saw Leicester in an appalling sanitary condition, until piped water came to the town in the mid 1850s, along with its first sewers.

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

North from the Market Place, the High Street curves away past The Woolpack, now rendered and roughcast.

This plainer room is one occupied by Queen Victoria when she stayed at Thoresby, enjoying the lavish hospitality of Earl Manvers.

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

Churches were built to serve the suburbs north of Abington Park.

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.

Another view, similar to H6031 (above), shows the brick-paved path and the holly bushes. At the left is a silver birch, which also survives today.

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

Beyond the Clocktower, the Georgian brick front belongs to the George Inn, which was replaced by Burtons in 1936.

Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne.

West of the church and across a stream is The Bury, the manor house until 1741. At one time council offices, it is now divided into houses and its grounds are a public open space.