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Modern houses surround it now, but the heart of the original village is the Green, with its chestnut tree, Georgian houses and The Bell Inn, still bedecked with flowers as in this picture.

The house facing the small green is Mitchell Hall, a timber-framed house built in the early 17th century but partly cased in brick in the 18th century. The huge clunch barn (right) is dated 1845.

A modern mini-market now houses Stokesby Post Office, and the building shown here has become a candle maker's workshop and a tearoom with a charming garden beside the river.

Although housing a restaurant at the time this picture was taken, the building has since been converted and split into two private houses.

The ivy-covered house on the left was Rawdon House, occupied by Dr George Mellersch Jones, MA, MRCS,LRCP Lond, surgeon, medical officer and public vaccinator for No 2 district of the Alton Union.

On the right the weatherboard house is Retreat House, for much of the 20th century a post office, and now much extended.

Modern houses surround it now, but the heart of the original village is the Green, with its chestnut tree, Georgian houses and The Bell Inn, still bedecked with flowers as in this picture

The original house on Holme Island was built by John Fitchett of Warrington in 1832.

for Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Goodwood House was designed by James Wyatt and includes in its structure parts of a previous house built in 1720.

Built in the late 18th century as the residence of Dr Bird, the house, like Sunnyfield House, had grounds stretching back to the North Bank Lane, now known as Bolckow Street/Park Lane (it was on

Town houses were built in the early 19th Century for wealthy families and, in the late 1800's, 27 public houses existed along the High Street.

A major restoration project has been undertaken in recent years to bring Highcliffe House back to its former glory. The house was built in the 1830s during the reign of William IV.

The slate-hung building (second left) was once a gaming house, and is still known as the Card House. The frontage has the suits of a pack of cards carved into the slates.

These houses are still there, although they have lost their look of uniformity. The fences are now no longer all the same, and the houses are painted in many different colours.

The Girls' High School was founded in 1918 in Brueton House at Mount Pleasant, but moved to this purpose-built accommodation in Green Lanes in 1930.

After the purchase of Sandringham House, the tiny station at Wolferton became the stopping off point for visiting members of the Royal family.

IN 1801, according to the first national census, the borough had a population of 2,349 consisting of 565 families living in 448 houses, while the rest of the town, the ancient 'foreigns', had a

This 15th-century slate-hung house is on the North Quay and was once the Guild House of Padstow's merchants.

The setting of the 1664 Manor House is stunningly beautiful, as we can see here. The house was given a new wing in 1873, and is said to have been Victorianised.

Food hygiene regulations have changed somewhat since this photograph of the Leche House was taken.

Weston House and its grounds were sold by the Harrison family to the Corporation in 1873, the house itself being converted into a museum; the Mappin Art Gallery was added in 1887.The war memorial

Older houses nearby were destroyed or damaged by a Second World War landmine, Aylesbury's only wartime bomb, which fell close to the pond.

The homes in the middle distance would have been built to house the employees of the many market gardens in the area.

Alas, the public house opposite has long gone, to be replaced with a whole range of modern dwelling houses.