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Two miles south of Congleton stands Little Moreton Hall, a magnificent moated manor house, originally built in the mid-15th century by Sir Richard de Moreton and added to by successive generations of his

Demolished in the 1930s, Eden Hall stood on the site of an earlier medieval house built by the Musgrave family.

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

The cast iron bridge was built in the 1850s, with Sir Charles Barry, the Houses of Parliament architect, acting as consultant. To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890.

Once sold, the premises are tipped to house a supermarket and its grand upper floors will probably become residential space.

This view, taken from the start of Tanner's Hill, looks north-east across the green and past the parish pump in its tiled pumphouse to the Royal Oak pub and a fine range of historic houses and cottages

On the left, No 5, the house with the centre gable and timber frame, is 16th-century. A local map of 1543 records its original jettied gable.

The café pictured here is now a private house beside the main road to Tenbury Wells.

The original manor house, The Burystead, is late Elizabethan. A new manor house built in c1650 was replaced by one built in 1850 by Pugin.

To the right is the former Market Toll House, adjoining the British School of 1861. The Great House (left) was the home of the poet Stephen Spender in the late 1930s.

These demure Victorian villas, constructed to house commuting City workers, are outwardly unchanged, although now augmented by two more modern houses on the right-hand side of the picture.

Beyond The Strait, Steep Hill commences with The Jew's House, a Norman stone house of the 1170s, before climbing more steeply up towards the cathedral and castle on the top of the hill.

An Usher's Brewery lorry is making a delivery to the Railway House Hotel, which advertises Usher's ales.

This modern clock tower is part of Silchester House, built in 1820, but the clock tower is more modern. Silchester House is an attractive gabled rambling building with decorative chimneys.

Most houses have red front doors, showing that they belong to the local estate; a 19th-century mansion sits on the old priory site.

To its right is Cameo House, a colourful and ornate late Victorian refronting, dated 1890, of an earlier house. Weatherill's, the gabled building next to the Astoria, is still a chemist, Garlicks.

On the left are Adelaide Cottage and Caithness House. Several of the terraced houses have had bay windows added to the first floor rooms. The Sole Bay Inn was run by Mrs Maria Powditch.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

This 'Tudor' house may not be all it seems, as many houses in this pretty village were built in this style as recently as 1860.

Here we see some fine brick houses, some with decorative bargeboards and Flemish-style gables.

Three of the four terrace houses on the right were once shops. On the opposite corner, Skoulding's grocer's and draper's had traded since the 1850s.

A number of Victorian redbrick houses survive, intermingled with more modern housing. Notice how quiet the road is. Is the lady making her way to the post office?

A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.