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This was Sir Joseph Banks's house.

Originally a narrow street of shops, houses and workshops, the redevelopment and widening of Market Street took place between 1822 and 1834 at a cost in excess of £250,000.

The village contains a number of fine weatherboarded houses and a school with Tudor timbering. Note that on the left-hand side of the road the old trees are now obliged to sink their roots in tarmac.

The two-storey sandstone base is now part of a house. Archaeologists have found remains of 13th-century glass-making furnaces in the village. French immigrants worked the glass.

Nearby Hollyhill is a large house with a Jacobean façade built in 1885. In the picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared for work.

A hill figure of a white horse was re-cut in the escarpment in 1924; it is visible from Cuckmere Haven. Many villages in the Cuckmere valley have medieval dovecotes.

The long dresses must have suffered from the dirty streets - the centre lady is approaching a trail of horse manure. The ornate canopy in the centre of the view is the Symons & Son building.

There had been a house (probably half-timbered) at Bank Hall in the Middle Ages, but in about 1780 it was decided to improve the building, and the structure seen in the picture was the result.

Described as ruinous in the earlier 16th century, the castle's character beyond the mighty walls is now that of a Tudor and 17th-century country house.

The journey from the capital to the naval port took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

Further development of the town meant further conversion of houses into shops. Note that Smith Bradbeers has moved to this corner, from Market Street (see page 25).

On the left the meadow is now occupied by Hilda Wharf, 1990s housing.

Its church houses a superb collection of monuments to the 17th- and 18th-century Dormer family.

Its broad High Street has a pleasing mixture of half-timbered buildings and elegant Regency houses. The fine medieval church has a magnificent 15th-century tower.

A few miles from the old port of Pwllheli, this small village on the side of the river Erch would seem to offer little to the passer-through; but a few houses, a church and a small shop offering anything

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre. The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.

The estate village was built up in the 19th century - the School House was built by Lt Colonel Northcliffe in 1841.

The manor house is just out of sight on this side of The Black Lion, and is now a chemist's shop.

There are many new houses here now, which are occupied by commuters to Lancaster and Heysham.

We can see 17th- and 18th-century houses in this scene. On clear days it is possible to see the rugged Forest of Bowland skyline - Wardstone, Clougha Pike and the neighbouring summits.

In the Domesday Book the village was mentioned as 'Bodetone', meaning 'the dwelling house of Botl'. It was 1706 before the name became what it is today, a common old England name.

Along the western edge of the Green, medieval and Tudor houses have either been subdivided into workers' cottages, rgiven Georgian façades.

The Ascot District Gas & Electricity Company and Herbert's are no more: the building is now merged as Eden House and offices.

These farm buildings belonged to Manor Farm, but are now being converted into houses (November 2004); the brick range at the left has an additional loft entry dormer.