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The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

The church dates back to the Norman Conquest, but very little of the original church remains; the initial period of restoration in the 1820s dramatically altered its structure.

The north wing on the right is dated 1636, and contains an impressive long gallery with a decorated plaster ceiling.

This popular inn on the harbour at St Ives is said to date back to 1312. In the 20th century it became a favourite haunt of the St Ives artists' colony. There is now a small porch by the doorway.

It dates from about 672, and is one of the oldest Christian survivals in England. The passages are very narrow – indeed, one passage, thought to have been a confessional, is called 'the needle'.

The Five Arrows Hotel is the best of these Rothschild buildings, dated 1887.

The handsome Dorset House next door is dated 1705. The motor car has one of the earliest registration plates (London, 1904) and may have been one of the first seen in East Grinstead.

Of the medieval church, only the chancel arch survives; the tower dates from 1606, the nave from 1842 and the chancel was rebuilt in 1931.

The manor house dates back to the 13th century, and formed part of a large estate. Its most famous resident was the poet Alfred Austin, who was Poet Laureate from 1896 to 1913.

The building at the end of the High Street is the old Town Hall, which dates from 1572; it was remodelled in 1780 and is now used as a library and museum.

The nave and chancel date back to the 12th century; the tower is 13th century.

The terrace stepping down the hill on the left is dated 1880. The pump (just visible to the right of the steps) has now been joined by a Coronation seat.

The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times. Note how the timber work on the first floor projects, or jetties, from the ground floor stonework.

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.

The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey

Dating from the 7th century, and named after Winifride, or Gwenffrewi in Welsh, the holy well has been the site of pilgrimage ever since, and known as 'the Lourdes of Wales'.

Although it looks medieval, in fact it dates from 1897, and was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

The former Congregational Chapel, with a reused date plaque of 1836, was rebuilt about 1883 when the hall beyond was added.

The central tower of the castle dates from a licence of 1454 when the thane was permitted to erect Cawdor 'with walls and ditches and equip the summit with turrets and means of defence, with warlike provisions

The walls of Garston, Waverley and Monks Way (left) face Chapel Cottage, which dates from 1780 and has a fashionable frontage of Ionic pilasters and a pediment.

The present church dates from 1712. The tallest building across the road was M Robinson's Coliseum Department Store, now Debenhams.

The central lamp standard dates from 1873: the globe is supported by fishes and surmounted with the crown and arrows of St Edmund, to whom the church is dedicated.

St Illtyd's is built in the Decorated style and dates from the early 14th century; the nave was rebuilt and a north aisle added in 1849 at a cost of £1,200.

This post mill is thought to date from the 17th century, and is perhaps the oldest working post mill in the country.