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The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

At its junction with Laura Place you can look along Great Pulteney Street towards the Holburne Museum, built as the Sydney House hotel in 1796 to serve the Sydney Gardens beyond, a large hexagonal public

Designed by the younger Wood in the 1760s, York House Hotel has descended to a Slug and Lettuce theme pub and Travelodge.

Splendidly guarded by four toll houses or lodges in Greek temple style with Doric columned porticos, the cast-iron bridge was designed by Henry Goodrich and opened in 1827.

A great fire in 1689 destroyed over a hundred houses.

The Royal Oak, now a private house, can be seen at the top of the street.

Another wide street, and also laid out as a market, it has many good stone houses, including almshouses of 1877 on the left and several pubs.

The castle was originally a manor house belonging to the Bishops of Chichester; a licence to crenellate was granted in 1377.

Georgian houses, thatched roofs, the war memorial and a village pub make a pleasurable combination.

St Anne's Church tower is visible behind the handsome Stepping Stones House. The stepping stones themselves look less serviceable now, but there is also a footbridge today.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

The road divides at this toll house, heading to Salisbury to the left and Ludgershall to the right.

Now it is a house and a tiny plate above the shop window reads 'The Old Post Office'. Four and a half days a week, the Village Hall hosts the Post Office.

More recently, St Margaret's was the home of two literary giants, Noel Coward and later Ian Fleming, who rented a house from Coward. It was here that Fleming wrote some of his James Bond novels.

The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.

The thatched house (now demolished) is The Glen, the scene in 1884 of the murder of Emma Keyse by her handyman John Lee.

During a storm in the winter of 1978-9, waves were breaking over the tops of the houses.

The landing stage to the Crown and Thistle, a hotel some way away on Bridge Street, now belongs to The Mill House, the pub on the island. The weatherboarded outbuilding has since been demolished.

At the end is Red House, a Tudor farmhouse with a brick front of c1715. The school playground is on the right.

The mill house to the right is early 17th-century with later additions and alterations.

In the distance is Upper House Farm, one of many buildings around Kinder Scout which are now in the hands of the National Trust.

Lines of local authority housing climb the hill at Stanmore on the south-west outskirts of Winchester, which has evolved and expanded over the years.

This picture shows its quaint, narrow High Street with the 450-year-old Lord Nelson pub, originally a customs house, on the left. Note the motor cycle and sidecar in the left foreground.

This building stands on the corner of Barrack Street, and is now a private house.