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The clock tower, partly enclosed by an hexagonal shelter and situated at the centre of a traffic system, stands on the site of a wayside chapel, disused in the 16th century, converted into houses and

These attractive weatherboarded houses still stand. Once Mrs Cudmore ran the tea shop, offering home-made cakes.

This closer view of Market House also reveals the Crown Hotel (on the other side of the High Street and next to Larkinson's shop) which was the source of the Great Fire of Biggleswade in 1785.

The ivy-clad lodge gates, built in 1802, outlasted Cassiobury house itself and were only finally demolished in 1970.

A more modern thatched house has replaced the one we see on the left, and the wooden shed has also gone.

The mill has now been converted into a private house.

also plans to demolish the council flats at Rashcliffe and Southgate and, although the latter in particular are notorious eyesores, there is concern that this will lead to a further reduction of housing

To the right behind the houses is Tower Hill, the site of Gourock Castle. Built in 1747 the castle was demolished before the Great War.

The two public houses on the square (The Black Lion and The White Lion) provided rest and refreshment for travellers and those who visited the fairs that were held on the land in front of them.

The market gardens in the centre are now the Wylie Road housing development. Christ Church was built in 1830-31, high above the town on Sambourne Hill.

The building on the right is the Booth Hall, also known as the Round House, perhaps so called because it was possible to walk all round it without obstruction.

The fine Palm House stands to the left, and is a major attraction.

A carriage with top-hatted coachman waits patiently outside one of Cheyne Walk's many grand Georgian brick houses. Graceful plane trees screen residents from the more boisterous life on the water.

Oast houses are common in the Weald of Sussex as well as in Kent, and indeed wherever hops are grown.

the village, shows the broach spire of the church of St John the Baptist, rebuilt in 1861, rising above the very attractive slate and stone roofscape of a village of mainly brick and ironstone-faced houses

Lyte was the much loved Victorian parson of the fishing town, living high above the town at Berry Head House.

In the shadow of the Lord Nelson Hotel and the lifeboat house, a century on from the first day-trippers, some of the surroundings have altered, fashions have changed and deckchairs are in abundance, but

King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

High Street was where Joseph Cottle opened a bookshop and publishing house in 1791.

The 200-acre estate was acquired by the corporation in 1947; the hall now houses a local history museum, and is also used for exhibitions.

The Public Gardens were once the grounds to Westbrook House. The Council acquired the premises, and the gardens were opened on 19 May 1934.

This led to some changes: one 1920s guidebook writer complained that 'the newer, stoutly built houses have almost replaced the cottages that were the joy of artist and photographer'.

There are a number of bridges serving mill-works houses.

Across the small valley is a pleasant mixture of modern semi-detached and older terraced houses.