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In the grounds behind the Council Offices stands Pippbrook House, the home of Dorking's main Library. It was once a private house.

Dorfold Hall was built for Ralph Wilbraham between the years 1616 and 1621, although the lodge house, shown here, dates from 1862.

Brackenwood House, shown here covered in Virginia creeper, dates back to the 1880s. It was purchased by Bebington Council in the 1920s for use as council offices.

The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

Built on the site of the 12th-century priory of the Holy Trinity, this marvellous Tudor country house almost became a housing estate in the late 19th century.

The appointment of a public preacher was paid from these funds, and this house was built in 1611 to house the town's Preacher.

In 1933 a house clearance and house building scheme was developed at Broadwaters.

Constructed c1600, this was probably a yeoman farmer`s house associated with the Hallingbury Park estate. It was later split into two cottages, one of which was the local police house.

Earlier in the century, the half-timbered building housed a pair of shops. They are now private dwellings. Like the white house next door, they date from the 16th century.

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.

Rising above Canada House we can see the 18-storey New Zealand House, which opened in 1965.

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

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. It is now in the care of the National Trust.

In the grounds behind the Council Offices stands Pippbrook House, the home of Dorking's main Library. It was once a private house.

This is a scene of contrasts, featuring Manor Cottage, an 18th-century thatched stone-built house, and the dull 1960s house to the left. The bus shelter remains, but re-roofed in sheet metal.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly's great houses to survive.

We see good examples of slate-hung houses; these slates are large, and they have even been used to board up the windows of the disused house on the right.

Beyond the draper's awning is the Quaker Meeting House and Buzzards, the home of Thomas Gainsborough's uncle Thomas.

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window.

Crown House provides a view of London Road and Morden Court and the slightly earlier mock Tudor York Close to the left.

The house at the top of this view was that of the Sergeant Major from the Staff College.

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

The Custom House is a memorial to the importance and value of sea trade to King's Lynn.

Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.