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This beautiful scene of blossoms and oast houses was obviously taken in the spring. These oasts are of a slightly different design to those seen at Wateringbury earlier in this chapter.

The photographer appears to have stepped into a garden and asked the inhabitants of the house to come out and pose.

It was built on land given by the 5th Lord Braybrooke of Audley End House, and cost £5,504 to build.

Note the typical Kentish architecture - hung tiles and a hipped roof - and the big conservatory and the round oast house to the right.

The hotel dates from the 18th century, though it does incorporate some details from an earlier house on the site. It is noted for its Queen Anne panelling and Ionic columns.

For an estate village, the houses are considered very large. This is believed to be because they were built to accommodate looms. It was a wealthy wool village for many years.

For an estate village, the houses are considered very large. This is believed to be because they were built to accommodate looms. It was a wealthy wool village for many years.

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

On the corner with St Stephens Lane stands the Ancient House, a remarkable building which is probably the best surviving example of medieval pargetting - decorative plasterwork - in Britain.

It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

public meeting to win support for the acquisition of the Greenhead estate, including Gledholt Glen (now known as T P Woods after former owner, T P Crosland), to prevent the encroachment of housing

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

A meeting house was established in West Street in 1719, which survived until 1834.

Owned and restored by the Sussex Archeological Society, Parsonage Row, a 15th-century Wealden house, is part of a village that retained its identity, despite being swamped by Worthing's northward expansion

Not far from here are some half-timbered houses dating back to the time when Sudbury was one of the most important weaving towns.

Here grand houses enjoy a superb view overlooking the town and coastline below.

Founded in 1823, this building, at the foot of The Mound, housed a statue gallery when this picture was taken. There was also a collection of casts that was open only to art students.

The pub is now a house, but the street is relatively unchanged.

Smart dress and good behaviour are to be seen here in front of the picturesque Clock House Pavilion. And there are no skateboards or litter in this park scene from a more orderly age.

The pub is now a house, but the street is relatively unchanged.

Although only visible from its sign in this picture, the Green Man is a magnificent timbered public house.

A late 19th-century advertisment for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or anglers

This possibly romantic view of rural England is balanced by the Hungerford Almshouses, built during the Jacobean period in 1668, which were charitable institutions to house the poor, and which overlook

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump. This was quite acceptable in the 1950s perhaps, but is not legal now.