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Building work began in 1573, in the reign of Elizabeth I, and the house has been the home of the Spencer family ever since.

Many of the houses in the old part of Aynho are built of local limestone, and most were originally thatched.

Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons.

Newquay had a lifeboat from 1860, and a new lifeboat house and launching slip were erected on Towan Head in 1899.

Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

Eskdale Green, a stop on the popular Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow gauge railway, is perhaps best known for its Outward Bound Mountain School, housed in this former Victorian mansion.

The houses stand on a hairpin bend of the road that leads to Hornsea. There seem to be more advertisements for cigarettes than anything else here.

Many of the original houses are now blocks of flats.

In its later years, the house became a hotel, which was bought in 1939 by the Southern Railway Co.

The tall chimney next door rises above a bread oven, whose rounded shape protrudes from the wall of the house.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house; it was built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

The house was designed in the baronial style by Scott himself, and built between 1817 and 1824 complete with steam central heating.

The two figures on the eyot in the millpond are Jonah and his wife, reputedly brought to Turvey in 1844 from Ashridge House in Hertfordshire.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

In 1854 his heir, Alexander Beresford-Hope, cased the house in Wealden sandstone and added another storey in the English Gothic style. Today it is a private school.

Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849. Next door is Bartlett & Cain the drapers.

The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments. However, there is still a good view from the Norman St Margaret's Church.

It is one of two bridges in the village - the other one at Bridge End dates from the 17th century, and features a tiny toll house with a 3½ ft (1m) high doorway.

Just behind, a cyclist passes the swinging sign of the Green Man public house, which partially obscures the advertising sign for the baker's shop of T G Dunfold.

In the village stands a fine 17th-century house, The Cross, and the magnificent All Saints' Church (centre left).

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

Beyond Parkers, all has gone, replaced by a modern shopping centre, while to the right the tree has gone, and all the houses are now shops.

It fulfilled several purposes, serving as hospital, almshouses and pilgrims' hostel, but the two houses were the homes of chantry priests.