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There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

The house on the left still maintains its ivy foliage.

Its elegant houses soon became guesthouses, and are now shops. The billboards for the coach offices on the right advertise trips to Exmoor and the Quantocks.

The air traffic control centre is housed in a building which rather resembles an old war-time nissen hut; to the right of it is the quaintly-named emergency services rendezvous point.

Northwood House was the home of Tennyson's friend William George Ward in the 19th century. The poet and Ward would often stroll around Northwood's exquisite gardens.

Note the interesting variety of architectural styles, including gabled houses with tiled roofs, in Bicester's three-cornered Market Square.

Several of the houses have later façades. The central one is where Thomas Gainsborough lived in the 1750s.

Several of the houses on the street have cellars where Stilton cheeses were stored for sale.

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

These compact, if undistinguished, houses still stand behind the Fox on the Hill in Smithy Lane, as it leads towards the busy A217 Brighton Road.

The Trust House sign disappeared when the hotel left the group in the 1980s.

This view shows the High Street just before the development of the 1960s, when about 200 new houses were built off the High Street behind the trees.

Gone, however, are Skyrmes Café & Boarding House beyond and the Bon Marché, where, at one time, Chepstow school children were supplied with their uniforms.

The single-storey builder`s shop on the right has given way to a substantial building currently housing Burgh Heath Tandoori.

The present house, seen here, goes back only to 1845. The original family home burnt down in a fierce blaze on Christmas Day 1845.

Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey. Building work was completed by 1175 and iron forging began in 1200.

The fine embattled western tower of Holy Trinity houses a clock and one bell.

The Helston Customs House was also here, but it moved to Helford in 1822.

The Ancient House Bookshop on the right hand side is little changed today, although the wonderful metal sign for Reigate Garage has now disappeared. On the left is Reigate Park.

The building has been painted white and is now a private house.

The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. At the oar of the boat is a woman - quite adventurous for 1900.

Sandown's leading hotels were very expensive at this time: even a room in a boarding house cost six shillings a day.

The apparently unusually sharp incline of the launching ramp serving the lifeboat helped a speedy departure from the housing.

The three-storey gabled Manor House dates from the 16th century and faces onto the bridge.