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Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill. It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

The thatched roof of Norfolk reed covers the main house and the outbuildings in one enormous sweep, reaching almost to the ground.

The classic Palladian west front of Chatsworth House, seen from the banks of the River Derwent.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Of the three arches at the north end, the central one leads to the chapter house, whilst those on either side were book cupboards where the abbey library was housed.

The title 'Old Guest House' may refer to the building which housed visiting clergy before 1856, when this was the rectory of the Chancellors of Salisbury, the patrons of All Saints' Church.

Hundreds of houses in old Taunton were torn down during Victorian times and throughout the 20th century, particularly in the aftermath of the First World War.

A lane leads left to the church and manor house, and to the right is Burycroft, which leads to the medieval bridge and then Abingdon.

The house on the left, demolished in 1980, has been replaced by a two-storey office block of dubious merit, complete with a mansard third storey, while the old Northgate Restaurant beyond, demolished

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

The attractive houses of steeply cobbled Cornforth Hill have front gardens on the left. The house on the right, now one, was then two.

The attractive houses of steeply cobbled Cornforth Hill have front gardens on the left. The house on the right, now one, was then two.

The present God Begot House is Tudor, though it stands on the site of an ancient manor originally bequeathed by Emma, widow of King Canute, to the Priory of St Swithun in 1052.

Next door to the Porch House in Potterne (see next pages) is another - newer - building. Although this is Wiltshire, the design is very much Cheshire in style.

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

The houses use much finer slates than those seen in Launceston. The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town. Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

The Basildon Development Corporation aimed at providing a wide range of different types of housing—both for visual reasons, and also to attract residents from different income-groups.

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

The large weatherboarded watermill was demolished around 1900 and only the mill house remained, just off the picture to the right. The waterwheel housing can be seen on the left wall of the mill.

Kingswinford has an interesting Roman Catholic connection in Holbeche House, the home in 1605 of Stephen Lyttelton, a friend of Robert Catesby of Gunpowder Plot fame.

The Harrow is the oldest public house in Wanborough, dating back to at least the 18th century.