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Here we have a glimpse of the church tower between the houses of Market Street in the old heart of the waterside town. Note the gutter in the centre of the narrow roadway.

It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere. The newly-erected telegraph lines suggest the relative affluence of this street.

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

Development spread beyond the immediate area of the town to Bradda West and Bradda East; many of the houses in this picture have been built since picture No 47241 was taken in 1901 (page 113).

the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented porch, Maple House

The two impressive buildings to the right now house the Natwest Bank, previously the National Provincial and originally the Northamptonshire Union Bank.

This old school was built in the 1850s, but in recent years it has been converted into a number of separate private houses.

The leafy Victorian estate village of Canford Magna was created by the Guest family of Canford House for their staff.

In the distance is St John's Church, Bridgetown; the wooded hill to the right is now the large housing estate of Westonfields.

A small number of houses still manages to support a pub and grocery store - this one is part of the Mace chain.

Topsham's merchant adventurers used Dutch brick brought over as ballast in otherwise empty ships to build these gabled houses in the Dutch style.

Its delightful thatched toll house was built in 1758, and has been recently renovated and slightly extended.

Par Green has since been made a one-way street, and the pub is a private house.

The sign reads 'The smallest public house in England, originally a blacksmith's shop. King Charles I stopped here to have his horse shod.

Eventually, any trace of its previous prosperity became submerged beneath the houses and the harbour mud.

At this time the street narrowed, because of a row of houses surviving in the middle of the roadway.

The lock, its footbridge and the lock-keeper's house have all recently been completely rebuilt as part of a major programme of upgrading all the locks and weirs along the Thames above Marlow.

The chimneyed building to the right of the gate- house was demolished by 1904 to make way for the Shire Hall seen in later views.

The Victorian Methodist church beyond and Georgian Ilex Court beyond that remain, backed by orchards and separated by closes of new houses.

In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.

This grand manor house, now a hotel, was built during the Elizabethan period, but was considerably extended by its Victorian occupants.

It became the Grammar School in 1921, but was demolished in 1998 and the site developed for housing.

Hiding in the tree by day, he hid in a priest's hole in Boscobel House at night until the Roundheads abandoned their search and he was able to make his way to safety.

The owners of Gayton Flour Mill built all these properties to house their workers.