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Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

Today, altered and extended 17th-century buildings, such as The Green Dragon, mingle with modern suburban houses.

The tall timber-framed and thatched house behind, called 'Laurences', is dated 1548.

A couple of small shops now occupy the ground floor of the first house on the right. Blenheim Palace and Blenheim Park attract a large number of tourists to the town.

The George Inn, behind the cross, and the King's Arms (left) are now just houses.

The Baptists have been recorded in Bluntisham since the mid 17th century; a Meeting House was built on this site in 1787, and rebuilt in 1874.

This public house has changed very little - the white boarding is now black, and the poster for Greene King Harvest Brown Ale has gone.

The market cross, similar to the one at Bungay, housed the stocks until the 19th century.

The toll- house was the white building on the left; the toll, as the name suggested, was a halfpenny.

A number of older houses became hotels in the last century to cope with the increased demand.

medieval parish church's east window in the distance locates the view along High Street, but a new Safeways obliterated most of Star Road on the right, and earlier road widening removed the houses

To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

Owing to the foresight of the Sixth Marquis of Bath, Longleat was opened to the public in 1949, the first privately-owned house in England to do so on a regular basis.

In the quieter hours of the day, the careful walker might well see deer feeding in the wood-bounded pastures. Harcombe House is a good example of the many fine properties here.

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

To the left of the bridge there is now Water Park, new housing.

A house was built here and connected to the mainland by a suspension footbridge in the early 20th century.

Downholme, where stone houses slope down to the Swale, lies 5 miles west of Richmond. In the village is a 13th-century Norman church.

The house was built in 1595 by Ninien Boord (his father had been court jester to King Henry VIII). The extensive estate was used by Canadian troops during World War II.

The parade of shops, right, has been demolished but those beyond have reverted to private houses.

The houses were fashionable residences, with balconies giving views over the park.

In the house lived the caretaker for the Assembly Rooms, and the shop was occupied by Moses P Stoodley, a watchmaker from Haslebury in Somerset.

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.There is a large amount of wonderful medieval

The terraces of houses on the Parade, previously broken only by Charles Place, is now broken by the building of a pair of detached properties (right), which were later joined to become the Gwalia Hotel