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At the road junction is the Black Lion, rebuilt in 1839, and a grocer's known as Top Shop. The Tudor houses have been subdivided to provide houses for the poorer members of the village.

The High Street was laid out when Walton became a tourist destination, with shops to cater for most needs.

The sign next to H A Furr's confectionery shop advises traffic for Bedford and Luton to use Tilehouse Street, while traffic for Baldock is directed down Sun Street.

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.

This is one of the ponds, Banks Pond, on the main east-west road through the village; the scene is relatively unchanged, although out of view to the left is now a parade of 1960s shops.

Banks are now found in Eastgate Street, on the left-hand side of this picture, which eventually leads to the under-cover Kings Walk shops.

Westgate Street is now pedestrianised, though its higgledy-piggledy character of individual shops and businesses in a variety of building styles remains intact.

The charming central Green is overlooked by houses and shops, most of which were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries when local merchants invested wealth made in the maritime

The shop was later known as Espley's.

The painted advertisement extolling the virtues of Robb's pork pies and sausages (left) can still be put to the test, as Robb's is still in the same shop.

Further along this stretch is the Strand Stores with its large canopy, along with Harris's greengrocer's shop nearby.

The inn on the banks of the river was two cottages and a shop in 1840. In 1851 it became an inn owned by the brewer Henry Prior.

After twenty-five years of argument, it was finally demolished in the early 1980s, and replaced by the Warwick Quadrant shopping mall, library and civic theatre.

Invariably the village shop and post office (left) was the social hub of village life, and Ardingly is no exception.

All the buildings in this view survive, although the shop fronts have been renewed, while the building on the left is boarded up and looking sorry for itself (January 2004).

The shopping parade on the right is in a competent neo-Georgian style, with box sash windows and a brick dentilled cornice to the parapet, and a centrepiece triangular pediment.

Beyond, the building with the four-shaft 17th-century chimney stack was used as the Post Office until recently and is now a clothing shop.

Oakfield Corner, built around 1910 and part of the earlier phase of Amersham on the Hill's expansion, chose the vernacular and timber-framed tradition for its shops with flats above.

Oliver spent much time in his room above his brother's music shop working on electromagnetic theories that culminated in his discovery of the Heavyside Layer, named after him.

The Queen's Head Pub of the late 19th century is next door to the mid-20th-century house, with to the left and right two-storey shops.

Neale's general store and Dunn's shoe shop are the most prominent emporiums.

This scene again shows The Castle Hotel, but from the west.

There is also an elegant Regency parade of shops, the Colonnade, situated at the crossroads. This view looks towards the spire of the church across the valley.

The old premises were swept away in 1971 and a new hall was incorporated into the modern shopping precinct.