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On the right, the building with the oriel window above the entrance is Bingham House, built in 1905 as the town library.

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraor- dinary design of the church.

The steps veer elegantly to the right to the chapter house, and extend ahead over the 15th-century chain gate.

This attractive Tudor building is known as The Bell House because in 1525 the then owner decreed that upon his decease the money raised from renting out the building should be used to pay for the ringing

Beyond, the elegant town houses that once had rear gardens down to the river can be picked out through the trees.

The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.

The barn on the left has now been converted into a house.

The houses indicate the line of Parkstone Road.

Carlton Hall and the Tudor House both still dominate the village. The small building, centre, has been tidied up and is no longer adored with ivy.

It is now a private dwelling house; although the ground floor frontage has been altered, it has changed very little in other respects. The post box is still there.

One could not be any nearer the sea than when you stayed at the Lanzarote Boarding House, the large building on the right of the photograph.

The houses in the Greenway are 1960s infill with their own service road.

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

Dated 1813, it had ceased work by 1900; it is now converted into to a private house.

In 1747 a valuable cargo of tea was seized by the revenue men and stored in the Custom House at Poole.

The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

The telegraph wires have long gone to be succeeded by other media, and although most of the houses in this view remain, the place is virtually unrecognisable and the traffic scanty: this

Most houses are 17th- and 18th-century, but over thirty medieval undercrofts or cellars survive; they were used for storing Bordeaux wines, the basis of its trade.

The library houses many famous manuscripts, including ones by Milton, Macaulay, Thackeray and Tennyson.

The church tower continues to dominate this scene, but the village has grown a lot in the last century, with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.

This area is still famous for its whitewashed and thatched houses. Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade.

The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace. They were built by Spencer's Engineering Works, which moved to Beanacre Road in 1903.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.