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Nash surrounded it with grand terraces of houses and laid out the bones of the park, including the lake. This view looks into the lake's north-west arm.

Following the suppression of the Knights Templar, in 1323 the Knights Hospitallers succeeded them, holding the manor for over two centuries until 1543 following the dissolution of religious houses

The best house is on the right, slightly set back from the road and with a central niche containing an urn. Built about 1835, it became a bank, hence its current name 'The Old Bank House'.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.

The photograph looks at the original village centre, with the Old House immediately behind the camera, and the parish pump out of shot to the right.

No-one could pretend that this scene is one of romantic beauty, but this long row of late 19th-century terraced houses with its excellent corner shop has a well mannered charm.

By the time this picture was taken, the arrival of the Metropolitan railway in the town ten years earlier had seen part of the extensive grounds sold for housing development.

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.

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

To the right is the cupola of Cupola House. In the foreground Charles Tozer, house decorator, of Orchard Street, is at work on the present Saffron Laundry.

The fine Georgian house in the centre has housed the telephone exchange since 1925, when it was moved from the post office at Mr Gotelee's shop in the High Street.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

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

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

The £30,000 Wells House Hydro opened in May 1856.

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

Not far away is Charleston Manor, the remains of a late 12th-century hall house. There is also a tithe barn and a dovecote still housing pigeons.

The large gabled house on the left of the street, with the telephone box outside, is the village shop and post office, both of which have since closed.

On the south side of the street are several half-timbered houses of notable quality, with Shakespeare House and its prominent gable, and the Chequers Inn, both very evident.

He was born in Wotton House in 1620 and inherited it later in the century; he died in 1706 and was buried in the fine parish church, which is isolated in the fields north of the A25.

The buildings on the left survive, as does the church, although now converted to flats as Winslade House.

Beyond is Trinity House, the minister's house, probably also by Woodman.

During the floods of 1947, the River Ouse rose over the gardens of the twelve houses in River Terrace and drenched the ground floors.

The complex was purchased by Babergh District Council in 1991 and became William Wood House, sheltered housing, which was opened by Princess Diana in 1993.