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The Manor House (left), formerly Ditcheat House, was built for Robert Hopton early in the 17th century.

This village prospered thanks to the quarries on Ham Hill, and the High Street has some fine 17th-century houses built in Ham stone.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Virtually joined to Thirsk even fifty years ago, Sowerby was the home of the wealthy, with Sowerby House off to the left, and de Mowbray House at the far end of The Avenue.

The gardens we see in photograph H32090 can be seen just beyond the cars on the left, with St Hilda's Church behind the houses on the left.

The house was designed in the mid 18th century by Richard, Earl of Burlington. Later it was the home of the Bradford industrialist Samuel Cunliffe Lister, later Lord Masham.

THE BANK HOUSE AND MOTEL c1965. Bransford's original bridge over the River Teme was built by a local cleric, Bishop Wulstan de Bransford, in 1338.

The houses on the left were built in the late 15th century, before oak grew scarcer. Hence the heavy, narrow-spaced timber- framing.

Between the village hall and the large windowless barn on the left, the picturesque group of houses has now been converted to Lion House.

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

These steep-roofed houses on the way up into the village square are typical of the beautiful houses built in the local vernacular style to be found in this locality.

On the right is the half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.

On the right is the half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.

The tall cluster of stacks to its right belongs to No 45, The Mansion House, a Georgian house set back from the street front, in which Sir Norman Angell was born, the winner of the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize

Blyth House next door has been reduced to two storeys, and now looks like an eight-bay Georgian house.

The blank site behind is now occupied by Thorngate House, a nasty 1960s office block: not a very attractive backdrop to this old merchant's house.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

The Prison Governor's House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was built within the Castle precinct.

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

The Rose and Crown brewers Nalder & Collyer have had their sign re-lettered, but the Greenstede Café is still at No 82 and the shop between Cromwell House and Sackville House is still a butcher's,

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.