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Behind the corner of the Boat Float, and distinguished by a white awning, is Parade House (centre), built in 1880 to replace the Assembly Rooms.

This is a very fine 16th-century house which appears to have had non-domestic use, perhaps as a manorial court-house, before its conversion to a dwelling.

There are more stones on the beach now, and the house in the background, Mere Bank, which is now part of an exclusive housing development, is obscured by mature trees.

Standing out proudly in this photograph of Horsham's most interesting street is Causeway House, a picturesque half-timbered building dating back to the late Tudor period.

Originally called the House of Lords, this public house was enlarged by the Bridge Company when the ferry closed. It was renamed the Clayhithe Ferry in the 1880s, and by 1916 had become a hotel.

The large size of this Charnwood commuter village is hardly reflected in such an idyllic scene as this, a curving roadway with modest houses leading directly to the west door of the 13th-century church

To the left of the chapel is 'Glan Dyfi' house: formerly a school for young ladies and now known as Astral House, a branch of the RAF Association.

Branston, around its church, has delightful winding lanes; by the church stands Hainton House of 1765, a Georgian house of some dignity.

The house with the fine Venetian windows is Argyll House (1766); next is Oriel Lodge (1800).

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

Next to them is the drive to Medstead Manor House. It was built in 1905 by Edmund Purefoy Ellis Jervoise, but by 1915 Lady Bradford was living there.

The name of this house, Llys, or court, of Meirchion, possibly indicates that this was the site of the home of Meirchion Gul, ancestor of St Winifride of Holywell fame.

Most of the houses on the right were still private houses.

The bank at the left has become the District Bank, and the building also houses the Inland Revenue.

Like so many pubs, The White Horse has mutated into a house. The thatched cottage next door was once the home of the local carpenter, William Gray.

We are looking up Lion Street towards St Mary's church, the Town Hall and Fletcher's House in summer sunlight nearly a century ago.

Note the row of houses on the right - a varied mix of stone houses and tile-hung properties.

He converted it to a boarding house and named it in memory of a house the family used on holidays in the Lake District. It is situated along Ayston Road, next to Meadhurst.

This sprawling 14th-century house is an impressive sight. It was the birthplace of the poet-soldier Sir Philip Sidney, who died for his country in 1582.

Facing the small green is Riverview, a fine 18th-century brick house - it was the home of the artist Dendy Sadler in 1900.

The Black Bell public house lies at the centre of the village, though the roads are busier these days. The River Stour is one of southern England's beautiful rivers, though given to occasional floods.

One of the houses on the left, known as Fielding House and now part of a school, is associated with the novelist Henry Fielding, whose wife Charlotte lived here in the 1730s.

The bank on the left was built as a private house in 1649, and the Cabin public house was built in 1930-31.

The tall house in the distance is Twyford House; John Bunyan once stayed in an earlier building on the site. During the First World War, it was a hostel for female munitions workers.