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It is alleged to have been the house of William Hogarth, the painter. Among its known drinkers were Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick.

At the far end of the left-hand row of houses we can just see the gable end of the Cottage Hospital, built in 1874 by Bell Brothers for the casualties inevitably arising from the local ironstone mining

Many of the houses here have the initials NEC, standing for the New England Company that once owned the parish. On the left is the post office, which closed in the 1980s, and the Chequers Inn.

Built during the reign of Elizabeth I, Dockacre House is the oldest home in Launceston.

It was here, in 1715, that a number of Scottish lords, including the Earl of Mar, met on the pretext of a hunting trip to plan an uprising against the House of Hanover, with the object of returning the

The buildings replaced a large Victorian house. The sloping site was successfully incorporated into the design of the blocks of flats, allowing for garages to be unobtrusively accessible.

There are earthworks to the south- west of the church, the remains of what appears to be a 17th-century formal garden, and eroded house platforms along the south side of the road.

The bank is now a house, but the Co-op survives as the Co-op Village Store.

An account of his childhood years, his book charts the changes in this rural settlement during the 1920s, including the death of the last squire, who lived at the 18th-century house called Steanbridge.

The northern lee along the foot of the South Downs escarpment always seems to have been a favoured location for country houses.

This view of the Anglo-Saxon tower with its 15th-century shingled broach spire is seen past farm buildings, now converted to houses, while the field has become a yacht park.

The 1870s terrace on the left now houses Paiges Bar in the left-hand part, while the 1850s block beyond has been demolished.

He died at the house in 1820, though not before he had taken his baby daughter in his arms to see the sea, boasting to locals 'one day she will be your queen'.

Looking east from the drive to the Manor House and church, the village green in 1897 was all but submerged in tall trees. These have gone and there are much more modest trees in their place.

Numbers 99-103, with their three jettied storeys which tower over the gabled timber- framed house on the right, are now a children's wear shop.

The Town Hall next door is built on the site of a house and garden. Further to the right was a public convenience for gentlemen only, as were many others in the town.

He rebuilt the house, and diverted local roads and created a park with avenues of trees on his glebe land.

It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library.

A yachting agency advertises itself on the left-hand side of the house by the Royal Marine Hotel.

Princes Street fares somewhat better, although the creeper-clad Georgian house beyond the shop on the right was rebuilt in 1950s Neo-Georgian.

The house on the bend is now Derrick's Tea Rooms and Restaurant, but the cottages on the right went for road widening.

Beyond, in its lee, is the good early 18th-century Manor Farm House.

The houses on the left have been replaced by Civic Offices and the Central Library, which opened in 1978.

The renowned Bourne End Regatta was based here, established in 1897, with the club house to the right of Shaw's boat works.