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The terraced houses carry the information that they were built in the late 1880s. Only the sash windows seem to have changed.

The buildings on the right are a splendid mix: the jettied timber-framed Tudor building of about 1543, with its three gables, contrasts with the early Georgian warm red brick houses beyond,

It is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings – the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, influenced by

Here we see the village square, surrounded with black and white houses and clogged with randomly-parked cars.

Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, (who, obviously, also worked on London's St Pancras station) and built in 1864, this was the third house on the site and at the time of the photograph was owned by the

A market house once stood in this square, close to a water pump. Built in 1707 it was demolished in 1861.

It is said that Drummond was sitting under the great sycamore tree in front of the house when Jonson trudged up the path. Drummond met him with 'Welcome, welcome, royal Ben!'

It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners. A National Savings Centre is tucked away on the left of our picture, and the Millstone Hotel is at the far side.

In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rent charged was sixpence.

The public house on the right is the White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign. Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's Coaches.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

The Customs House is far right.

The bank on the right, 1920s extensions to two houses, went in 1975. Its drab replacement Nat West Bank is now (in 2000) Methvens booksellers.

The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall.

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.

The Norman castle building involved demolishing over 160 Anglo-Saxon houses; since the Middle Ages it has served as a prison and assize courts. This concludes our brief tour of Lincoln itself.

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

With the funds of the National Testimonial to him, he purchased and re-built Dunsford House, his birthplace, which was presented to the Liberal Party in 1924 by his daughter.

As its name implies, it was originally a single row of houses, but it developed rapidly after the opening of its own railway station in 1866.

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

The most popular theory is that Kit's Coty - 'coty' means 'house' - was the burial place of Catigern, who is said to have fallen fighting the legendary Anglo-Saxon warriors Hengist and Horsa in the Battle

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.

Smarts occupies part of a block known as Bordeaux House, so named because when it was built in 1894 it was the home of a wine importer, Rutlands.