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This was a notoriously dangerous river; many houses well uphill from it have flood markers, particularly from the 1917 flood.

The house between the trees is Cosener's House, built on the site where the cosener or kitcheners lived – he was the medieval official who ran the Abingdon Abbey's kitchens.

To the north is a housing estate that replaced the army buildings when the National Defence College, based on Latimer House, closed in the 1980s.

The house is one of the very few left that are 'pre Esplanade', itself occupying the site of an earlier farm.

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

On the right we can see the timber-framed Tudor walls of The Corner House.

The roof of the New Inn can be seen through the trees (left); next to it is Wharf House, built in 1815 as the wharfinger's residence by the Company of Proprietors of the Basingstoke Canal.

The view shows the Rose and Crown public house and, on the right, the row of fine mansard roofed terraced houses. Each of the doorways has its own fine web fanlight.

Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

Built about 1726, in the early 20th century High House was a co-educational boarding school founded by Harry Lowerinson.

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart.

The name and licence were moved from a public house standing on the corner of the churchyard and owned by the parish. The rent was paid to the Overseer for the relief of the poor.

The town's fine Market House dates from 1698; it rests on an arcade of pillars that are unusual in that they are made of stone on the outside, and timber on the inside.

This superb 15th-century house became the home of Essex stockbroker James Corbett and his wife Alice between 1854 and 1912, where they raised their two daughters.

Moses Glover's map of 1635 shows a building in the vicinity of today's York House, covered in scaffolding and surrounded by a number of smaller structures, some of which line the roads.

The rendered house on the right, with its 16th-century gabled wing, fell into decline and was subsequently demolished.

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.

This attractive cul-de-sac running north to the gates of Merstham House, where rampant lion statues guard the way, acquired its name as a joke.

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

Here we have a closer look at the four-gabled house in picture 42179 (pages 16-17) – it originally comprised two houses.

The house itself is no longer the residence of the heirs to the extinct earldom; it has recently been bought and fully restored as one of Warner Holidays Ltd's Historic Hotels.

Just above the left-hand end of the bridge in S177036 (page 70) and here in 72297 we can see buildings which in the 1920s housed Cooper & Hall, the engineers.

This view, looking west from the green, has lost its two community facilities: The Bell is now a house, while the shop on the right is now a house called The Old Post Office.

The picture shows the headmaster's house and garden. Since the garden is on two different levels, it provided an excellent venue for open-air theatrical productions by school pupils.