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This magnificent house is situated in grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. Its avenues were planted following a visit by William III.

Virtually joined to Thirsk even fifty years ago, Sowerby was the home of the wealthy, with Sowerby House off to the left, and de Mowbray House at the far end of The Avenue.

The houses on the left were built in the late 15th century, before oak grew scarcer. Hence the heavy, narrow-spaced timber- framing.

Between the village hall and the large windowless barn on the left, the picturesque group of houses has now been converted to Lion House.

THE BANK HOUSE AND MOTEL c1965. Bransford's original bridge over the River Teme was built by a local cleric, Bishop Wulstan de Bransford, in 1338.

Looking across from within the churchyard is the post office, which occupies an 18th-century stone house.

The house was designed in the mid 18th century by Richard, Earl of Burlington. Later it was the home of the Bradford industrialist Samuel Cunliffe Lister, later Lord Masham.

The gardens we see in photograph H32090 can be seen just beyond the cars on the left, with St Hilda's Church behind the houses on the left.

This ruinous Jacobean manor house, about half a mile north-west of Forest Row, was built in 1631 for Sir Henry Crompton, MP for East Grinstead.

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

The Manor House (left), formerly Ditcheat House, was built for Robert Hopton early in the 17th century.

This village prospered thanks to the quarries on Ham Hill, and the High Street has some fine 17th-century houses built in Ham stone.

Godred Crovan created the 'House of Keys', and in his day it included representatives from the Hebrides, but since 1266 it has been comprised solely of Manxmen.

The post office on the right superseded the toll house on the turnpike (1711). Note the semicircular door made to reflect the similar shape of the toll keeper's office.

Church House, on the right, also dates back to the 1400s; it has been a private residence, a priest's house and an inn. Behind is the Wykeham Hall built in 1909.

It was the former counting house or offices of Par Consols, a rich copper and tin mine in the mid-19th century.

The farmhouse, now a private house, still stands at the junction of the High Street and Cardigan Road in the centre of the village.

This autumn picture of Harnham Gate and the southern corner of the Close reflects then, as now, a secluded and quiet area of the Close.The house to the left of the Gate is an integral part of the wall.The

The shop and garage on the left are now houses, and new houses stand high on Strawberry Bank beyond. To the right, there is still a fish and chip shop by West Street, which runs down to the Minster.

In the late 1980s the Black Swan public house (left) was demolished; the land became a used car lot, attached to a garage (just out of the picture on the left).

The petrol station, with pumps delivering fuel from different suppliers, has been replaced by houses, but the Pedlar still surveys the rows of Georgian houses and shops from the town sign.

The medieval manor house, Gawthorp Hall, was bought by the family, and John Carr was asked to design the new stables block.

Originally owned by the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland, the Petworth estate passed by marriage to the 6th Duke of Somerset, who built the present house, designed by the French architect Daniel

It was in 1789 that it was first given the name of Mary Arden's House, reflecting a local tradition that it had been the home of Shakespeare's mother before her marriage.