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The Petty Sessions were held here until 1882, and over the years the premises were also a posting house, a railway booking office and an Excise and Inland Revenue office.

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.

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

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.

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 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

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

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 old village, which consisted of about eighteen houses, lay to the south-west of Belsay Castle - or rather it did until the early 19th century, when Sir Charles Monck had it demolished and moved to

Holidaymakers in this newer age of recreation sought alternatives to accommodation in hotels and boarding houses.

The Cross Public House, according to its sign established in 1652, almost certainly took its name from its position on the crossroads.

were used as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the original house

Smartened up, with its brickwork painted, the mill is now a house. It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

This picture shows the east front of the house.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

It closed in the 1970s and is now a private house.

The building is on the site of previous houses owned by the Rishton family; Dunkenhalgh then passed to the Walmsleys, until Catherine Walmsley married Robert the seventh Lord Petre.

In addition to the topiary garden, this fine medieval house has a 15th-century barn on the estate.

A handsome brick building houses the post office and store in this tiny hamlet. Smokers had not become the social outcasts of today, as the Players sign affirms.

The photographer has managed to capture someone either entering or leaving his or her house. A few seconds either way, and the photograph would have had a person in it to add a touch more interest!

Railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson settled near Chesterfield at Tapton House and died there on 12 August 1848.

Toad's Mouth stands on the moors to the east of Hathersage near Burbage Bridge, where it overhangs the A625 Fox House road.