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Chagford's striking octagonal Market House was built in 1862. An earlier Market House collapsed in 1618, killing ten people who were attending the Stannary Court.

The building immediately behind the lamp standard is known as John Knox's house. Dating from the 16th century, the house is said to have been built by Mary, Queen of Scots' goldsmith.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

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

Just off Hardwick Road is Girnhill Infants' School, which opened on 30 April 1960 to accommodate youngsters from the huge housing estate which partly replaced the earlier Coal Board houses seen in the

Robert de Gloucester founded a Cistercian monastery here in 1147; its grounds are now mostly occupied by the mansion house, but the choir and the chapter house remain.

Hailed by architects, planners and sociologists as being one of the country's most significant housing schemes, Park Hill won the Department of Environment Design in Housing Award in 1967.

This lovely half-timbered house is typical of many houses in this quiet neighbourhood, not far from the banks of the River Severn.

His father was steward to Sir James Lowther, and moved to the house in 1766.The house overlooks the River Derwent and has a delightful garden and terrace.

This house was built in the 1850s. Parts of the estate, some 571 acres, were being offered as building plots by 1920, and were sold to developers by 1935.

The style here is mock-Tudor, but unlike elsewhere around London, these houses were built in about 1938 with a degree of individuality. The houses overlook the fields.

Hailed by architects, planners and sociologists as being one of the country's most significant housing schemes, Park Hill won the Department of Environment Design in Housing Award in 1967.

Bishop Lloyd's House dates from 1615 and God's Provident House from 1652, though the latter was rebuilt in 1892 in the traditional style, using many original timbers.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor- style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

The building nearest to the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century.

A country lane, a straggle of houses and open countryside is all we see as we look down Collier Row Road with the Church of the Ascension on the right.

To the left of the pub is the site of the house where Abbot John Reeve lived from the closure of the abbey in November 1539 until his death in April 1540.

Most of the terraced houses in this view are 18th-century, including the one behind the tree with the pedimented doorway (far right).

This fully licensed house later featured exotic food from the Far East. Note the weatherboarded houses, so typical of Kent.

Some of the best houses in Feckenham are clustered around the village green, or the Square, though only glimpses are revealed here.

The early 17th-century house with the timber facade belonged to Sir Paul Pindar, who was visited here by both James I and Charles I.

Fowey's straggling main street runs parallel with the river between the Custom House and Town Quay. On the right is the historic house called Noah's Ark, with its twin gables and jettied front.

Rye House 1904 The front aspect of the mid-15th-century red brick gatehouse of Rye House, the scene of the ill-fated 1683 Whig conspiracy to ambush Charles II as he returned to London from Newmarket

The houses on the right have long gone, and have been replaced by a wide modern road whose only virtue is the exposure of the Roman wall formerly concealed behind the houses.