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The family were recusant Catholics, and there are two priest-holes concealed in the house. Queen Elizabeth came to stay here in 1561.

The Red Lion, in the hamlet of Middle Street, was rebuilt in 1888; it is now a residence called the White House. The car outside is a pre-war Morris.

The village school is now on a new site, and the old buildings have been demolished and replaced by houses.

This is all that remains of cloth- maker John Winchcombe's house.

The New Inn on the left of this picture became the Prancing Horse pub before the business eventually closed.

Many people visit this beautiful house each year, not only because it is a stunning building, but because it has also become the venue for an annual summer season of open-air theatre and concerts.

At its southern end sits the Manor House. There are two inscriptions on this building: one is just below the crest on the left gable, and the second is underneath the window just below it.

However in the way of such things, it is now an art gallery, and the Royal Oak pub beyond is now a house.

The vicarage beyond is now two private houses.

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

The famous Butetown community was ripped apart by a programme of demolition and re- housing. We now know that the area was not dead but merely dormant.

The estate, with its extensive and very beautiful deer park, passed into the hands of the Pole family, who built a Georgian mansion in the grounds of the old house.

Apart from some infilling by more houses, this scene remains relatively unchanged.

Opened in 1885, the Art Gallery and Museum was designed by Yeoville Thomason, who had also designed the adjoining Council House.

On the left is a corner of the Norman House, built in stone around 1180.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.To the right of it is the entrance to Botley Mills, an 18th-century mill complex, which is mentioned in the Domesday

This tranquil street of handsome houses fringing the river was built in 1708.

Boscawen Street is certainly refined, and its considerable width is due to the demolition of a central row of houses in Regency times.

Some old stone houses remain, and nearby is a scenic stretch of the River Nene.

The Bull Hotel, rebuilt in the 1930s, is a somewhat pedestrian and incongruous mock-Tudor effort, while the house on the left is now a bistro.

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

The lock keeper's cottage (left) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.