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It is said that Oliver Cromwell slept here after a Civil War skirmish at Winceby, so it would have to date from before the 1640s.

Dating from the 16th century, this fine Tudor country house was planned around three sides of a quadrangle with a protruding porch at the entrance.

Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.

The town therefore has few really old buildings - Llwyd Mansion is one of these, dating from 1604. Today the building is called the Heritage Gallery, and houses a gift shop.

Lower House (right) and the former shop date from 1520-50. The late 19th-century shop front is inserted under the jetty. The Branks family ran the shop, which shut in 1992.

However, restoration work was carried out between 1854 and 1875, saving the Norman nave and chancel arch.The Norman-style font actually dates from 1856 and the reredos from 1910.

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is the only church within city limits to be mentioned in the Domesday Book.The west tower and the spire date from the 15th century, though the latter was

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

On the right can be seen the parish church, which dates from 1712. Other 18th-century buildings were the Town House (1735) and the Customs House (1730).

The Red Lion (right) dates from c1580, and has an oriel window similar to those on the Ancient House in Ipswich. The pub figurehead gave rise to the phrase 'As red as a Martlesham lion'.

Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.

By this date the area had expanded southwards, no longer impeded by the dingle, with a bridge facilitating an extension of the parkland towards Cliff Road.

Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).

If this picture is correctly dated it must have been taken very shortly before opening, possibly in December.

There are no medieval churches in central Leeds, though several date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the background is the abbey church, dating from around 1100.

The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery. On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House.

The pub dates from about 1840, and used to have a later elaborate arched canopy, now long gone. The pub is now called the Villagers.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

It is dated 1935, and is a large timber-framed building of some quality, convincingly done. Village Way now passes to its left to the Leisure Centre and its car parks.

The cenotaph was presented to the priory by Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII; it can be dated by the carving second from right, which shows a cock on a reel , a rebus for James Cockerill, penultimate

The original unveiling date in May 1926 had to be postponed because of the General Strike. There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park.

The date 1960 is inscribed on the side of the bridge, which is now a fixed bridge with rolled steel joists and a wooden deck.

In fact, this impressive stone circle dates from the Neolithic or early Bronze Age period, and predates the Celtic Druids by many centuries.