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The first building past the row of cottages on the left was the post office and a beer house many years ago. In the 1960s it was a village shop, but that now has closed.

The first house on the left is named The Old Post Office, and the Old Cobblers Shop is further up the street.

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

Here on the right is the former Primitive Methodist chapel of 1897, now a house. The barn is still here, but the central houses have been redeveloped.

It is a stunning group: the medieval church, crowned by a most unusual lantern-like belfry; a 15th-century chantry or priest's house, now a museum; and the grand country house, all in golden Ham stone

The openness on the right has now given way to modern houses, and the post office and general store on the left is now a private house.

The house was famed for the way in which the designers successfully blended medieval and modern styles, and the prolific use of white and gold for the interiors.

Lowndes' house is the central five bays only; the outer bays were added around 1800 as were the service ranges. The house and outbuildings are now offices.

Beyond the King's Arms is the austere three-storey Elmodesham House with its straight parapet.

The lane leading north from the A283 passes Fittleworth House, whose east front can be seen beyond a stone wall and piers at the end of a rectangular close, now superb gardens.

Built around 1130, the Manor is supposed to be the oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain.

New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

Afterwards they could stay at the Yoredale Guest House (right) and buy provisions in Watson's Grocery next door - now specialising in Wensleydale cheese.

Here the road turns right into Church Street with The Nunnery, a fine 14th-century three-storey town house with slate-hung jettied upper storeys.

Pippbrook House is not to be missed. Oak doors form the entrance to the beautiful building with its ornate painted ceilings, marble fireplaces, carved doors and stained-glass windows.

The 12th Earl of Derby had often stayed at his uncle’s house in Banstead, the Oaks; as he was a keen sportsman, there was talk of his funding a new stakes for horse racing.

In the early 1900s the road was widened and the market house and several buildings in the same row were built to the designs of W J Tamlyn.

The town developed fast in Victorian times, and in 1896 had a commodious town hall, assembly rooms, a custom house, a literary institute, a club, a market-house and a free grammar school.

Hang a B & B sign in front of the left-hand house, add a telephone pole, turn the downstairs window in the main house into a door covered by a pretty porch and, a century later, there is the view

The roadside house (Newby Bridge House), the big tree and the cottages are virtually unchanged since 1940, but the motor bike and sidecar (centre) are very much of the 1930s.

The Otter pub, a 1930s Surrey vernacular- style road-house, has now been transformed into a farmyard complex: the upper floor of the main block has been white clap-boarded and given a tiled lean-to

It was originally a 14th-century timber- framed house, the home of the Pakingtons, an old Roman Catholic family; there were once five avenues approaching it, but they were cut down before 1800.

Beside the waters of the Great Stour, this great house in its pleasant parkland marks the original birthplace in 1380 of Cardinal Kempe, the ecclesiastical statesman.