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Although these houses are little changed today, the view from St Nicholas's car park across Markhams Chase is barely recognisable now.

Although Ilfracombe is essentially a Victorian town, the elegant terraced houses of Montpellier Place (upper, left of centre) were built in the early 1830s.

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

The large weatherboarded watermill was demolished around 1900 and only the mill house remained, just off the picture to the right. The waterwheel housing can be seen on the left wall of the mill.

The Harrow is the oldest public house in Wanborough, dating back to at least the 18th century.

The white house in the distance has had several names - Rose Cottage, Rose Bank and now (2004) The Old House. It was occupied by the family of Jane Austen's brogher, Frank, between 1808 and 1811.

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses in Hove with long gardens backing onto the beach.

This thatched cottage, now slated, was a 17th-century farmhouse, then two cottages; now it is the lodge for Combe Head House.

Kingswinford has an interesting Roman Catholic connection in Holbeche House, the home in 1605 of Stephen Lyttelton, a friend of Robert Catesby of Gunpowder Plot fame.

This is a famous view of the Ouse as it bends towards the parish church. The photograph is taken from the slipway near the green.

This house was built in the early 1800s by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury. It was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by the house which now stands on the site.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Hundreds of houses in old Taunton were torn down during Victorian times and throughout the 20th century, particularly in the aftermath of the First World War.

The thatched roof of Norfolk reed covers the main house and the outbuildings in one enormous sweep, reaching almost to the ground.

The classic Palladian west front of Chatsworth House, seen from the banks of the River Derwent.

Of the three arches at the north end, the central one leads to the chapter house, whilst those on either side were book cupboards where the abbey library was housed.

The title 'Old Guest House' may refer to the building which housed visiting clergy before 1856, when this was the rectory of the Chancellors of Salisbury, the patrons of All Saints' Church.

Originally known as Langley House, this was the home of Robert Henty, brother of G A Henty and of Lord Kindersley, Director of the Bank of England.

Built around 1800, the original Oakmere House was destroyed by fire whilst being extended.

The attractive houses of steeply cobbled Cornforth Hill have front gardens on the left. The house on the right, now one, was then two.

The attractive houses of steeply cobbled Cornforth Hill have front gardens on the left. The house on the right, now one, was then two.

The houses use much finer slates than those seen in Launceston. The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town. Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

The Basildon Development Corporation aimed at providing a wide range of different types of housing—both for visual reasons, and also to attract residents from different income-groups.