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This great house near Fowey was the seat of the Rashleigh family. It was surrounded by its own wooded grounds, leading down to the sea at Polridmouth Bay.

To the east, beyond the town hall, houses grew up along the road out of the town as it descended off the ridge towards the River Colne.

Plenty of stone-built houses and cottages stand in the shadow of Wytham Great Wood, and just to the south lies 700-acre Wytham Park. The house is now part of Oxford University.

The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.

This photograph shows the range of substantial brick-fronted Georgian houses at the north end.

This five-storey L-plan tower house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

The house and shop to the left have been demolished. Off to the left are the first rural council houses in England, built in 1893.

The Palladian-style building on the extreme left of the picture houses the Council offices; the town's court house was formerly here.

The house on the left - The Laurels - is now, indeed, called Pond House.

These early industrial houses no longer remain, but the Britannia Inn, where the workers drank, has survived from the 1840s. The Bridge End public house (right) has much more recent origins.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

The Court House gets its name because it was once, in the 16th century, the home of a leading lawyer and speaker in the House of Commons.

The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.

In 1837, the White Horse was just a small beer house. It was recorded as 'a cottage and a garden owned by John Marshall of Hitchin and occupied by Sarah Buckle, widow'.

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

The Penwith House Temperance Hotel, established in 1880, is providing hot or cold luncheons but there is no alcohol available to celebrate.

This house was built by the three Medley brothers in c1750 in the grounds of Buxted Park, situated about two miles north of Uckfield.

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.