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Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

Chaucer lived in the house which has shutters, and a circular window on the first floor.

The small square chapel on Rame Head is that of St Michael, built in the 14th century; it originally housed a beacon to guide ships into Plymouth Sound just round the corner.

19th-century Ashby was noted for its healing bromide waters; Ivanhoe Bath House was built in 1822.

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.

The Tudor tower house of North Lees Hall was one of seven halls built by Robert Eyre for his sons, all allegedly within sight of one another.

The Green Tree Inn on the right is a reminder of the remarkable number of public houses in Yarm; several of these were busy coaching inns with stabling to the rear for horses in the era of the stagecoaches

The house to the right was built c1965 by W A Leeks, who owned the adjacent Post Office and stores. Both were purchased by Tony Green in 1971, who in 1975 sold the store to Stowmarket Co-op.

The house to the left has been rebuilt, and the one to the right rendered over. The former forge building is now an estate agent's.

Their galley houses have been unbolted from their main decks and moved to one side in order for the ships to clear the clay tips.

The old houses along this main street, some half-timbered, others of brick, or board or tile fronted, were mostly constructed during the 15th century when the village prospered in the profitable cloth

The storerooms and offices housed the builders Coombs Brothers (left), who were also the village undertakers. William Day ran the fish and chip shop (right).

The timbers in the Abbot's House, as this building is known, have recently been dated - the trees were cut down in 1457.

The local shop can be as important to the social life of a village community as the public house.

In the late Victorian era it became increasingly popular with visitors, and a row of boarding houses was flung up along its sea front. It offers fine sea views round Gerrans Bay to Nare Head.

It was once the setting for Ham House, given by James II to Catherine Sadley, later Countess of Dorchester and Lady Portmore. The gates survive.

Here we see the lower end of the High Street with the 17th-century Clock House on the opposite side of the T junction, with its mullions, quoins and quaint weather-boarded bell turret.

The Custom House was built in about 1788, a little later than the similar- looking Guildhall. Outside is the Town Beam, which was used for weighing.

We see the fairytale house and chapel built on the site of a Benedictine priory, with the south-east wing added by Piers St Aubyn in 1875-78. Landscaped gardens are among the rocks below.

This smart terrace of houses stands just down the hill from picture No 32349, on the western approach to the town.

Built in 1785, it ceased work around 1885, and is now converted into a private house.

The buildings appear to be of later Georgian date, but the jettied timber-framed house to the right speaks of hidden treasures to be found behind and within.