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Now horse breeding and training is an important local activity. Findon Place is a manor house built in the 13th century and extended around the year 1740, with extensive stables added in 1800.

Witley, further west on the Milford to Petworth road, is in total contrast: its houses are timber-framed, often with the upper storeys tile-hung.

Also buried here is Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916, who lived at Wharf House (he died in 1928).

Swanage Station and Station Road (centre right) can be seen beyond the Rectory (bottom right), the home of Rev Thomas Alfred Gurney, which is now Swanwic House.

Every need of the guests was catered for; this included stabling for 50 horses - and it is just possible to distinguish a mounting block beside the colonnaded entrance.

The resort developed in a rather piece-meal way from a fishing village with fields amid the houses.

Roberts, Merchant' sign on the left (now a house) and the advertising hoarding for Singer sewing machines on the building beyond the junction (now replaced).

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The roughcast was stripped and the timbers exposed, and new housing was built behind in Bunyans Mead. The Swan is still an inn and virtually unchanged now.

We can see the coffee house at this date. A tram moves towards the cross. The photographer is standing close to Hare Lane, out of shot on the left.

Partly hidden from view, on this side of the road and by the dry-cleaner's, is the restored Dean Incent's house with its timbered frontage and leaded glass windows; the closely neighbouring hostelries

The long, low 17th-century house, right, has fine stone-mullioned and drip- headed windows.

The church was restored in the 1680s after being used to house prisoners during the Civil War; it was declared ruinous in 1657.

It originally started as just five women students assembling in a house in Cambridge to be tutored by Mrs Jemima Clough; as the establishment grew, it moved into a building in the suburb of Newnham,

The Brown Cow public house is on the right, and the Black Bull Hotel can just be made out further down the road. The village is 400ft above sea level.

The du Maurier family still own a house alongside the inn at the water's edge. The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers.

Houses for the colliers were built around the pit which dominated their lives.

The Crown Inn and Restaurant (the white building to the left of the road) is still there, as are the other houses. This photograph looks towards Market Rasen.

The houses to the right have also been replaced by those of a more modern design. There are two Woolsthorpes in Lincolnshire, and they are not far apart.

The International Stores, housed in a Georgian building on the left, was in a prime position on the corner of Meadow Road.

Having been bombed out of their works at Mitcham, Surrey, A C Cossor Ltd were relocated to Chadderton; they were housed in the old Wren Mill which had been converted into a government Shadow factory.

In 1848, Dr Goddard's niece and heiress, Martha Gale, pledged money and gave the 1742 house on the left of the picture in return for having the school moved to clear her view of the church.

A variety of houses of all shapes and sizes are seen in the foreground. Anthony Trollope, the Victorian novelist, lived in the village for many years and is buried here.

Brewing was also an important industry in the town: a brewer's cart is standing outside a public house on the left.