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The city council also continued to acquire new parkland through gift and purchase, for example Millhouses Park in 1909, Bingham Park between 1911 and 1927, Graves Park in 1925 and Whirlow Brook

Formerly one of the few eight-sailed windmills in the country, the tower is all that remains of the complex of granaries, bakery and mill house.

The mill house was the home of Golding Constable and his family from 1765 to 74, and it remained in their possession until the 1840s. Flour was taken downstream by lighters to Mistley for London.

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics. The scene is not so tranquil today, thanks to the traffic.

At the time of writing, this remarkable building is visually threatened by a proposal to build an estate of run-of-the-mill houses and flats on the redundant RAF Stanmore, immediately to the west of the

Dunster's Mill House was a 15th-century semi-aisled hall house with an associated watermill; it has now been moved because the old site is inundated by the new Bewl Water reservoir.

There was a bakery by the mill house. The mill is now being restored by its owner. Iron electricity poles line the road; they are of a type only seen in this part of Sussex.

On the right is the old mill house, now converted into flats. Left centre, just beyond the van, is a glimpse of the Prince of Wales public house.

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.

This last was probably originally a millhouse at the confluence of the river Medway and its tributary the River Len.

Hill House, on the left, was built for the Reverend Arthur Field in 1899. In 1978 the grounds were used for building and the development known as Hill House Close was born.

The buildings on the left are Kitt Hill House and Newell House, the former being opened as a boarding school as early as 1757.

The distant green fields and trees are now replaced by in-fill housing.

West Hill House, right, at the corner of Market Hill and Quarr Barton, is Grade II* listed; it was the home and surgery of Dr James for 42 years.

In 1896 his lordship moved up the hill to Daws Hill House and the Abbey became a pioneering girls' public school.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

The road was named after Viscountess Southwell, who used to live at France Hill House in France Hill Drive; the house is now used for adult education.

A gentleman stands at the door of Crag Hill House, perhaps calling over to the man walking his dog. Two children sit by the roadside playing near the sign for a café.

Before the arrival of the LCC Harold Hill housing estate, Noak Hill was an isolated hamlet; however the thatched weather-boarded cottage on the right still remains to this day.

The park had focussed around Prospect Hill House, now known as The Mansion House, which after being a problem building for years is now a pub/restaurant with marvellous views south from its hilltop

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

The gates on the right lead to Barn Hill House, which was fitted out at a cost of more than £3,000 as lodgings for Sir Robert Peel and other ministers during Queen Victoria's visit to Burghley House in

In 1882 the Orleans estate had been purchased by William Cunard, the shipping magnate, who later purchased Marble Hill House for development.