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This graceful thoroughfare of plain, unadorned granite-faced houses was built in 1795, and was considered the wonder of Cornwall.

Such was the attraction of Hiltingbury Common that a number of roads were cut through the woodlands, and large houses were built here with reasonably large gardens in a pleasant woodland setting.

As it housed both the Assize and the Police Courts, the interior is treated more austerely, but certainly no less grandly.

From further up the road here we can still make out the Esso station we saw in photograph No D31071, dwarfed beyond the Star public house owned by Brains' brewery.

The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.

This is the monument to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, builder of Burghley House and perhaps the most famous member of the Cecil family.

The premises on the left include a tobacconist, a public house, a grocer, a draper, a TV and radio shop, a ladies' clothes shop and a footwear shop.

Cocks House, in the distance at the junction with Back Street, is unchanged.

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

Slightly more visible is the toll house at the beginning of Wimborne Road to the left. Newspapers were sold there on Sundays when the newsagents were closed.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

The Great House Hotel on the left is now much extended, and the church tower is largely concealed by more mature trees.

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

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

The name of Ringwood Road refers to the early 19th-century mansion of Ringwood House, home of the Markham family, which stands to the north east.

This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

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.

The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.

Tregenna Castle was built as a house for John Stephens in 1774 to the designs of John Wood the younger, the well- known architect of Georgian Bath.

A Friends` Meeting House was erected there in 1804: the tree-shaded wall on the left surrounds its graveyard.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

Here we see a quiet road, with rather neglected grass verges outside the houses. In the background, on the right of the picture, is the spire of the church of St Mary the Virgin.

Instead of a theatre, this pavilion housed amusement machines and a fun fair.