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The Strand is the site of Topsham's famous 'Dutch Houses'. They were built between 1680 and 1730 from Dutch brick, which was brought over as ballast in ships which docked to load Exeter cloth.

New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Towards the end of the century many smaller houses were also built in Moseley, which became a notably cosmopolitan community.

Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

It was the gatehouse to Battenhall Mount, which was built as a private house but later served as a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers before it became St Mary's Convent.

Between 1921 and 1951 the population of Lancing nearly quadrupled, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of shops, businesses and houses in South Lancing.

The Revolution House, formerly the Cock and Pynot (or Magpie) Inn, at Old Whittington, north of Chesterfield, was the scene of the hatching of the plot for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which aimed

In the far distance beyond the road sign is now a housing estate.

The house on the right has since been rebuilt with dormer windows.

Shelley is a parish north of Ongar, consisting of a Victorian church, a hall, and a handful of houses and farms. The Hall was built in the 15th century.

This is an ironmaster`s house, built in the early 17th century; it was the home of the Burrell family (whose heraldic device is shown in mosaic on the Burrell Arms pub opposite Haywards

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The church dates back to 1096; opposite it lies the picturesque 500-year-old Priest House.

Eskdale Green, a stop on the popular Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow gauge railway, is perhaps best known for its Outward Bound Mountain School, housed in this former Victorian mansion.

Today, altered and extended 17th-century buildings, such as The Green Dragon, mingle with modern suburban houses.

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

These are some of the substantial red brick houses built along the coast at Westgate in the prosperous late Victorian era—the 1880s and 90s.

Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library. The tall building opposite was the Town Hall, which had lost its colonnaded front when it became a shop.

Keay House—on the right—was home to Basildon Urban District Council from 1960 to 1965. It took its name from Sir Lancelot Keay, the first chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

The whole complex was a focal point of entertainment, with a theatre, ballrooms, a roller-rink, snooker rooms, a skating rink, a menagerie, various refreshment stalls, an aviary, a monkey house and a lake

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

The pub has changed from the White Horse to the Swan, but is still a Tolly house.