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Now very much a part of north London, Southall boasts this attractive manor house, much used as the headquarters of a municipal department in recent years.

Behind the choir are the Chapter House, which has a richly carved doorway, and the Lady Chapel. In the Chapter House is a gravestone to the memory of nine martyred Covenanters.

The punts and rowing boats have long since disappeared, and the Boat House has been demolished, though the landing stage is still used by Thames pleasure steamers from Oxford.

Large 19th-century houses line the road on the far side of the Common on Chaters Hill. In the grass on this side of the house on the right lies the mediaeval maze.

This is a fine house, dated 1725, but with an older inner core. Now a home for the elderly, its main frontage has gabled end wings and a central porch.

Near the end of Hiltingbury Road, and on a comer with a new Ashdown Road, a public house called the Tabby Cat was built and thrived for some time.

Both the house and lodge are roofed in local Norfolk reed, known throughout the land as the best material for this purpose.

A young girl with a pram stands outside the gates and vanished lodge house of Cane Hill Hospital, built in 1883.

The original house was built by George Sitwell in 1625, much of which survives, though absorbed by the extensive rebuilding work carried out by Sitwell Sitwell in the late 18th century.

The garden in the foreground is that of a house aptly named Arrow Bank, a beautifully situated house now used for a bed and breakfast business.

The houses on the right back onto the Ouse. The old house with the parapet gable (right) has been divided into three cottages - one is a shop.

The Lodge, a house dating from about 1500, belongs to the National Trust and houses Axbridge Museum. It takes its name from a carved king's head on the corner, the sign of the King's Head Inn.

These old houses are to be found in the shadow of Tattershall Castle and next to the collegiate church of the Holy Trinity.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

The house with the fine Venetian windows is Argyll House (1766); next is Oriel Lodge (1800).

One of the houses on the left, known as Fielding House and now part of a school, is associated with the novelist Henry Fielding, whose wife Charlotte lived here in the 1730s.

This sprawling 14th-century house is an impressive sight. It was the birthplace of the poet-soldier Sir Philip Sidney, who died for his country in 1582.

The bank at the left has become the District Bank, and the building also houses the Inland Revenue.

Like so many pubs, The White Horse has mutated into a house. The thatched cottage next door was once the home of the local carpenter, William Gray.

The name of this house, Llys, or court, of Meirchion, possibly indicates that this was the site of the home of Meirchion Gul, ancestor of St Winifride of Holywell fame.

We are looking up Lion Street towards St Mary's church, the Town Hall and Fletcher's House in summer sunlight nearly a century ago.

Note the row of houses on the right - a varied mix of stone houses and tile-hung properties.

He converted it to a boarding house and named it in memory of a house the family used on holidays in the Lake District. It is situated along Ayston Road, next to Meadhurst.

Facing the small green is Riverview, a fine 18th-century brick house - it was the home of the artist Dendy Sadler in 1900.