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The only person on the street is a girl holding a baby by the house opposite the barn.

Next door below is the agent for Pullars the dyers – they have crossed the street since photograph 28638 was taken. The only traffic is a horse and cart.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

By now there is both horse-drawn and motor traffic on King Street.

Thus Middle Street has lost most of its historic character, and has utterly disappeared at its southern end.

As we look back up East Street, the focus of the view is the Market Hall.

Looking from South Street the general appearance of Victoria Road has changed little in the last 50 years.

This is a street mainly of 16th- or 17th- century timber-framed cottages.

The photographer stood at the northern end of the High Street for this picture. To modern eyes the phalanx of cyclists and two visible policemen lend an essence of quaintness.

The reverse view from D69020, looking south towards the ancient cross-roads of Watling Street and the Icknield Way.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

For several days in June every year this street was thronged with horses and dealers during the annual Horse Fair, when up to one thousand animals were sold.

It is one of a number of churches that had the street on which is stands renamed after it.

Similarly, the Ram Inn Hotel (the white building further down the street) also enlarged to include its neighbour.

The Fox Inn dominates this view up Bow Street to the tall Market Cross, which we can just see at the head of Westgate in the distance.

This hostelry is today known as the Toad Hall Arms, and stands at the northern end of the High Street.

The properties we see here sit on the edge of Norton Green, with the High Street off to the right, and the church and vicarage a short distance up to the left.

The market held in the High Street was widely famous, particularly for horse trading and for the selling of dairy products, especially cheeses.

The end of the street has changed: the gabled building on the left and the adjacent one with the awning have been demolished.

In contrast, the two cottages further along the street have a traditional swept ridge to their thatched roof. The two cottages were once a farmhouse before the enclosure of 1806.

The farmhouses and cottages all have steps down to the street because the old unmetalled road to Cambridge had been gradually lowered by use.

Bampton has an interesting variety of 17th- and 18th-century buildings; many of those in the High Street have 19th- or 20th-century frontages.

The very narrow Red Lion Street in Cropredy (pronounced Cropreedy) is named after the Red Lion Inn, seen half way along the row of houses on the right.

Much of the older town has gone, but in and around the High Street there are still reminders of Crawley as it used to be.