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Abinger Hammer is most well known for its spectacular clock, which is attached to the corner of a typical late 19th-century Surrey vernacular tile-hung house.

New Houses was built in 1788, and Fawside Green and Dudley Place in 1790. Also dating from 1790 is Iceton House, which was once the pay office.

A girls' hostel was added in 1972, and sheltered housing for the elderly was built in 1982. That year the hospital moved to Charlton Road and Cricklade College took overe the workhouse as classrooms.

It is now an unprepossessing village, with some pleasing weatherboarded houses in the High Street. On the right are two public houses - the Victoria and the Black Bull.

The name Egremont was given to a big house built by John Askew, who bought land here. He called the house Egremont to remind him of where he was born in the Lake District.

The medieval core is rich in vernacular houses, and this atmospheric photograph shows a quite excellent example.

Not a hatless head to be seen as the open-top tram, en route to Frindsbury across the river, passes the lantern and railings of Eastgate House, threatening conflict with horse-drawn traffic.

This row of houses is still there today, but perhaps looking a little more looked-after.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

The Old Hatch, the cross-winged house on the left, has heavy Horsham sandstone roof slates. The petrol station on the right has been replaced by a 1970s pair of houses.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Next down the street (left of centre) is the Castle Inn which was rebuilt by Sir Frederick Weld after a fire in 1887, with Chideock House below it.

The right of the harbour now accommodates some rather incongruous housing, while the warehousing on the left has also given way to housing.

The building on the left is the masters' boarding house.

The gabled stone building (in front of the church) housed the Market Offices, and was also a drop-in centre for the unemployed.

The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village.

the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and good limestone houses

In 1955, the agitated ghost of Penn Assheton Curzon probably hovered over the site of Gopsal Park, the splendid house he inherited in 1773, unforgivably demolished in 1951.

The estate covered 770 acres (including the works); when it was finished, it housed around 6,000 people.

In 1951 the Borough of Swindon purchased Penhill Farm, which lay in the parish of Stratton St Margaret, just outside the borough boundary north of the town, for housing.

Until the restoration in 1889, under the open staircase there was a lock-up or blind house.

Sixty years and two world wars on from the photograph of 1906, the late 18th-century house on Church Hill has been demolished and replaced by the War Memorial Building, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in

The pillars were acquired by a Mr Ward, who bought Clinton House and land opposite in 1882.

In the wake of the war, under the auspices of the Housing Act of 1919, the country set about building 'homes fit for heroes'.