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Other famous names associated with Corsham and its fine collection of good houses include designers John Nash, Henry Keene, Capability Brown and Bellamy.

where this celebrated royal palace now stands grew mulberry bushes for the silk industry.The palace was built in its original form in the early 1700s and adapted to the Palladian style by John Nash

This astonishing building started life as a farmhouse, then became a classical villa with a rotunda, before Nash transformed it into this domed and minareted Mahatman-Indian palace for the Prince Regent

Built as a farmhouse, then a classical villa, it was finally transformed by John Nash into this romantic Hindoo, Mahometan fantasy bedecked with domes and minarets between 1813 and 1822 for the Prince

The International Stores (left) are now Harris and Nash's electrical shop and Broadstone Discount Stores.

This area is now somewhat traffic-plagued, so that this peaceful scene is no more; the obelisk to the Prince of Orange, erected by Beau Nash in 1734 (restored in 1872), now occupies a railing-less traffic

The magnificent neo-Gothic building on the prom began life as a triangular house designed by John Nash in about 1795.

The new church was designed by Edwin Nash, and opened in 1864. It is a rather uninspiring essay in the Decorated Gothic style, built in hard flints with stone dressings.

William Nash's premises (left), a boot and shoemaker who is also a postman, fronts onto West Street, formerly called Pound Lane.

The nucleus of the Pavilion was built in 1787 as a simple Georgian villa, but it was transformed by Nash into the extravaganza (now a tourist attraction) we see today by 1821.

Evidence of this was provided in the 1980s when the High Nash industrial estate was being built and a large Roman temple was discovered.

Built as a farmhouse, then a classical villa, it was finally transformed by John Nash into this romantic Hindoo, Mahometan fantasy bedecked with domes and minarets between 1813 and 1822 for the Prince

doubt extremely attractive, and the school buildings contribute greatly to that well-manicured ambience, such as Bradbys to the left and The Park seen here to the right, a fine house remodelled by John Nash

photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne is Grovelands, a beautiful house designed by John Nash

The mill was one of the two main Hertfordshire paper works (the other was at Nash and Apsley Mills in the west of the county), but it fell into decline and is now a private residence.

Apsley Mills came under the technical control of the Ministry of Munitions and Nash Mills made mortar bombs and small shells.

Industry at Nash Mills has now disappeared to become a new housing development.

Boots & David Lewis had led the way by being cash-only shops; by 1899, the trend of negotiating over a reduction in the marked price had almost died out.

On the right is Winebloom's Railway Hotel and Robinson's Cash Boot Stores; on the left is Graham's Adelphi Commercial Hotel.

Behind them the Queen Anne façade of the White Hart hides the fabric of a Tudor building, while the structure housing Babbs footwear shop is not so bashful.

Edwin Broad, Cash Draper, has overflowed into the next door shop, and just arrived a little further down is an early chain store - Oliver's, the shoe shop.

Owing to his policy of 'good value for cash', his enterprise eventually expanded from a single shop, built in 1887, into six shops.

Work started in 1722, but it was not completed until 1737: local government has always been strapped for cash.

Among the shops are Paten & Co, offering 'Spirits direct from Bond', and Cash & Co are on hand to sell the footwear.