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Bleak House stands on the right, while on the left is the prominent tower of Holy Trinity church, built in 1862. Note the canopied deckchairs on the right.

The Great Stone Inn is one of Northfield's older drinking establishments, as is the Old Bell House, Bell Hill.

The large building on the left is the reservoir house, part of which was converted for use as a café.

A thousand years ago in the reign of Edward the Confessor this important town comprised a mint, a priory and a hundred and twenty houses.

This is Taw Vale Parade, a new road cut through what were the riverside gardens of the houses to the right.

Note the array of chimney pots on the houses behind the shelters. Southend Westcliff Parade Band

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

The village's favourable microclimate encourages the profusion of climbing plants up the walls of the houses, which have the steep pitched stone roofs typical of Cotswold villages.

Buried in the Cathedral is Izaak Walton, author of 'The Compleat Angler', who died at his son-in-law's house in the Cathedral Close in 1683.

The third house from the right, slightly lower than its neighbours, is now the post office. Otherwise, the scene is little changed today.

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraor- dinary design of the church.

On the right, the building with the oriel window above the entrance is Bingham House, built in 1905 as the town library.

Carlton Hall and the Tudor House both still dominate the village. The small building, centre, has been tidied up and is no longer adored with ivy.

One could not be any nearer the sea than when you stayed at the Lanzarote Boarding House, the large building on the right of the photograph.

The houses in the Greenway are 1960s infill with their own service road.

The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace. They were built by Spencer's Engineering Works, which moved to Beanacre Road in 1903.

It is interesting to note that the parish church seems to belong more to the adjacent manor house than to the village.

When the roads became negotiable, a brick-built toll house was constructed here. It ceased to operate in 1871, at the time when most toll roads were abolished.

This area is still famous for its whitewashed and thatched houses. Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade.

It is now a private dwelling house; although the ground floor frontage has been altered, it has changed very little in other respects. The post box is still there.

Later housing faces Victorian buildings on the edge of this large village. In days gone by, Sapcote was a centre for cheese-making and the framework knitting industry.

This picture of it was taken in West Mills, where the tower and west door suddenly loom large between tightly packed houses and cottages.

The row of houses on the left-hand side are known as Cliff Terrace; they look across the sands and coastline towards Saltburn.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.