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The Poor House (left) was built at the direction of Sir Robert Hitcham (d1636), who owned the castle. The gable wing dates from 1637, and the remainder from 1729.

These cottages, south of the junction with Hurst Road and built as a 15th-century hall and cross wing house by a prosperous farmer, had by 1907 been divided into four small cottages and given Victorian

The school (right), now converted into two houses, was built in 1858. The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

The view is northwards from North Street, down to the sign of the former Lord Nelson public house (centre). The garage of Northover and Company, coach-builders, is at No.75 (left).

In the centre is the old lifeboat house with its slipway, built in 1903. A lifeboat station was established at Polkerris in 1859, when the first boat was given by the Rashleighs of Menabilly.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

It was closed in 2002, and has been carefully restored and converted into two houses by Robin Clevett.

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst. It is now run by the Benedictine Order as a monastery and public school.

Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which

Beyond is the stables and coach-house, stone fronted to the road with medieval-style buttresses and with brick side elevations.

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Between West Deyne and School House on High Street West, this was once an academy for young ladies run by Miss Jemima Adams.

The listed Grade II* late 17th-century three-storey house on the left, with a magnificent carved shell hood over the doorcase, is Odiham's most splendid house.

On the left is the 16th-century Old House Country Club, now Chimney's Restaurant; in the 1830s John Churchyard lived here - he started the horse-hair weaving industry in Melford.

The building on the right is a substantial medieval house with later additions. Gardiner's Garage next door, now a dress shop, was originally a maltings.

Formerly Garbrand Hall, this two-storied, five-bayed stuccoed house stands at the centre of the village, and was built on a Tudor site around 1775.

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

Many of the village houses are built of the local ironstone; this gives them a rusty red colour, the same as the houses in Denton.

There are substantial houses with large dormers on the right, some of which still remain.

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.

The Victorian stepped gables, porch and Tudor-style windows of Old Castle House beyond mask a timber building of c1600. The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839.