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Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

Slightly more visible is the toll house at the beginning of Wimborne Road to the left. Newspapers were sold there on Sundays when the newsagents were closed.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

As it housed both the Assize and the Police Courts, the interior is treated more austerely, but certainly no less grandly.

From further up the road here we can still make out the Esso station we saw in photograph No D31071, dwarfed beyond the Star public house owned by Brains' brewery.

The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.

The houses on the left are typical of the Wealden style, and H Kemp's Stores and Post Office still exist.

The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.

and Elijah Hargreaves from Rossendale were considered great pioneers in St Anne's; they later took an interest in Fairhaven, building the Promenade assisted by Thomas Riley of Fleetwood, who built many houses

Sometimes described as the county's finest unspoilt Elizabethan country house, Barlborough Hall has stood to the north of Barlborough, a north-east Derbyshire village, for four centuries.

One of the few houses was Hawkes Point Cottage, seen here (right) on the nearest headland. The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.

The name of Ringwood Road refers to the early 19th-century mansion of Ringwood House, home of the Markham family, which stands to the north east.

This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

Parade House (right) was demolished in 1980 and sensitively rebuilt, with a slate hung front, as the NatWest bank.

By 1897 Jane Austen's house, on the left, had been divided into four - three dwellings and the premises of Chawton Working Men's Club. This had a Reading Room, and was 'well suppied with newspapers'.

Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it.

Tregenna Castle was built as a house for John Stephens in 1774 to the designs of John Wood the younger, the well- known architect of Georgian Bath.

A Friends` Meeting House was erected there in 1804: the tree-shaded wall on the left surrounds its graveyard.

The old station now houses a tearoom.

busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war housing

On the right is St Catherine's, reputedly the oldest house in the village, then Last's butcher's shop, once noted for its fine sausages, but now demolished.

The club house, with its central lookout station, was built in 1935. To the left of it, within the fence, is the warning siren. The crowds are probably watching the annual regatta.

building on the extreme left is Manor Farm, which F C Beazley described in his book on Thurstaston as 'a little gem'; unfortunately, it has been demolished, and a rather incongruous-looking building that houses

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.