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The village has a wealth of old houses, including a row of Kentish weatherboard cottages flanking the side of the parish church.

They were built in 1806 to re-house workers from the Shugborough estate and thereby ensure privacy for the Hall's residents.

The beautiful timber-framed house, beside the lych-gate leading into the church of St Mary the Virgin, has an inscription over the door dated 1630.

To the centre left is Squirrell's seed and corn merchants, now a housing development.

Housing has not yet developed out into the fields where tall elm trees break up the line of the hedgerow on the right.

The photograph shows the former King's Coffee House. Originally built by Richard Harding Watt in 1907 to house Knutsford's Urban District Council, it is now home to a restaurant.

The Town Hall, or the Market House as it was formerly known, is first recorded in 1594.

The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond.

The house, probably of the 18th century, with its mix of thatch and stone slates, fine gate piers, and a less substantial gate, masks the Boot and Shoe.

Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming professional and business people.

It still looks the same today, although some of it has been used to build the extra houses which are needed to house the ever- increasing number of people who wish to reside in the area.

This was described as an ancient common way in 1702, when it led to Lower Yates, New House and orchards or walks.

This house was originally called Gravenhurst.

The old house at the end of the parade housing Holmes & Co butcher`s (established 1824) was demolished for road widening.

Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming professional and business people.

The Eyot (meaning island) is called after Richard D'Oyly Carte; he strengthened the banks of a small island in the River Thames below Shepperton Lock, and built this large house upon it in 1889.

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Certainly, many of the houses in the village are thatched, and are constructed in the same way as the house in the foreground.

Demolished in 1939, this house is thought to be the third dwelling on the site – the first was possibly a Norman tower.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green.

From the sands it is possible to appreciate fully the outstanding position of the houses and hotels high on the Esplanade.

Pevsner described The Hall as 'the one nationally major mansion in Bradford, not a town house but a country house in character'.