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This is the only country house to be built in Wales that was designed by Robert Adam. Peter Birt, a wealthy Yorkshireman, bought Wenvoe in 1775 and commissioned Adam to rebuild it.

The trees (right) obscure stucco-fronted houses dating from about 1840.

The Castle and Ball Hotel, an old established commercial hotel and posting house on the north side of the High Street, has a distinctive tile-hung front with pierced barge-boards decorating

the bell turret of the old Market Hall, and beyond on the other side of the valley is the tower and spire of the parish church and to its left, beyond the cedar tree, is The Bury, Chesham's grandest house

This view looks south down the High Street past a motor bike with its acetylene headlamp towards the old Market House with its cupola.

The body of the church is fairly run-of-the-mill with its four-bay nave arcade, but it does house some 19th-century stained glass of interest.

A plaque dated 22 August 1951 set into the wall of the garden of Corner House reads: 'This plaque was erected by the Sawbridgeworth Urban District to commemorate the transfer to the Council of the manorial

most impressive building in the parish, the Tudor mansion, with its octagonal wing turrets and a 50 acre park landscaped by Humphrey Repton in 1790, was the result of the redevelopment of a smaller house

The mid 19th-century houses are fairly run-of-the-mill, but had the cameraman turned round he could have photographed a fairly new arrival on the Hill.

The house in the distance was once the village shop.

The Tivoli Tavern can be seen to the left, but Albert Gait has been replaced by the Alliance and Leicester (the gabled building, centre left), and Citi Financial is installed in Pinbox House (centre).

Next door is the Eynsford Castle public house, so-called because it stood opposite the entrance to the ruin of a Norman castle.

Smarden is an attractive Wealden village in H E Bates country, with a number of fine old timbered houses. At one time it had a substantial trade in linen and woollen goods.

Nearby is the Cat House, a quaintly decorated half-timbered residence. Brickmaking was quite a large local industry. A common on the Brighton Road has a fine cricket pitch and reed beds.

This was the site of much activity, including horse fairs, which continued regularly until the mid-20th century. The Green is today architecturally unchanged from this photograph.

Now horse breeding and training is an important local activity. Findon Place is a manor house built in the 13th century and extended around the year 1740, with extensive stables added in 1800.

The scene is still similar today, but the shop is a house agent's and the old signpost has been reduced.

The row on the right tells of a not-so-distant past: these are clearly old houses left behind, now forming shops and protected by the essential awning.

These houses would have been built when Bangor the port had to deal with a constant stream of sailing ships bringing in coal and limestone and carrying away lead and copper ore, along with locally-made

Between the two are the county buildings, which occupy the site of the house in which the Gowrie conspiracy against James VI was hatched in 1600.

Fact File (David Brooks) New houses in Clarendon Park, where Long Grove Hospital stood.

David Brandon rebuilt the hospital in 1859 to 1862 in a similar style to the earlier one; it had been a Georgian country house, with wings added in 1832.

In the closing stages of the war, a V2 nearly hit Commer Karrier's despatch shop in Biscot Road, destroying a house.

It was chosen by St Columba in AD 563 as the site for a religious house from where he could carry out his missionary work.