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The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

Civil wars, rebellion and border raids all brought destruction before the stability of the mid-18th century, and prosperity from trade with the Indies encouraged investment in grand houses and civic buildings

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile's gent's outfitters; in the centre are the Tiger's Head, landlord Edward Smith, and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

Beyond the apron-clad figure of the proprietor of the Golden Tea House, with its tea caddy sign (left), is The Good Intent at number 33, a pub opened by a Godalming brewer in 1867 which closed fifty years

An open-top bus heading for Redhill via Epsom overtakes a lone cyclist outside the Green Man public house (right), with its swinging sign showing a figure dressed in forester's green.

Many of Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

The houses in the Square date from medieval to Victorian, with several striking large Georgian properties. The King's Head (left) is also Georgian.

Outside the Sir Charles Napier public house stands a telephone box (centre right). On the wall next door is a large Guinness advertisement.

The old house on the right has now been restored, but the seat on which the man rests is no more. Apart from these changes, this scene is little altered.

The Black Bear lays claim to being the oldest inn, dating from 1308, while the Bell, though older in that it contains some 13th-century wall paintings, was originally a guest-house for the abbey.

Today the house and grounds are open to the public.

Full of quaint old Georgian houses and historic buildings, Arundel has long been an obvious destination for tourists and visitors.

Today the house and grounds are open to the public.

The timber-framed Tudor House, one of the city's finest buildings, dates back to about 1500, and has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

Such is the demand for eating places that the old lifeboat house opposite has also been converted into a cafe.

Most of the buildings in this view survive, and even the painted lettering on Atlas House can be seen through later paint.

In this later view, taken a little further south-west from photograph 26717, Dales' premises, Lindum House, on the corner of Wellington Road, has been rebuilt, but the former hotel beyond, now shops, can

In the shadow of the 13th-century church of St Mary, to the south of Petworth House, the two young girls and the driver of the horse and cart pose for the camera in one of the innumerable nooks and crannies

The block of modern flats on the left replaced a smaller group of houses that were destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War.

Further along on the left is the hanging sign of the Prince Albert public house.

The lofty tower of the 14th-century All Saints church rises behind the Archbishop's Manor House and grounds.

The area round the medieval church is unspoilt; besides the church, which has a very recent eastern extension, there is a Victorian school and a fine 18th-century Manor House near the river.

Somersetshire Buildings can be seen on the left beyond more standard three-bay Palladian houses.

The village shop (right) stands slightly higher than the terraced houses on either side, and all are built in local stone. Today the shop has reverted to being a private dwelling.