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Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks produced on the site, the house was the county's first true country house.

In the grounds behind the Council Offices stands Pippbrook House, the home of Dorking's main Library. It was once a private house.

This is a scene of contrasts, featuring Manor Cottage, an 18th-century thatched stone-built house, and the dull 1960s house to the left. The bus shelter remains, but re-roofed in sheet metal.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly's great houses to survive.

We see good examples of slate-hung houses; these slates are large, and they have even been used to board up the windows of the disused house on the right.

Beyond the draper's awning is the Quaker Meeting House and Buzzards, the home of Thomas Gainsborough's uncle Thomas.

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window.

Crown House provides a view of London Road and Morden Court and the slightly earlier mock Tudor York Close to the left.

The house at the top of this view was that of the Sergeant Major from the Staff College.

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

The Custom House is a memorial to the importance and value of sea trade to King's Lynn.

Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.

Clarence House is now one of Essex County Council`s community education centres: it runs such things as residential art courses.

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

Crichel House 1904. Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time.

The Market House, seen here on the left, was built in 1772 and has fulfilled a variety of roles since.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

It now houses a splendid museum. Huge sheep markets were held here, and the farmers and buyers refreshed themselves in the Woolpack, a convenient public house across the road from the castle.

The single-storey extension on the nearest house has been demolished, but there is something similar on the adjacent house.

The open land with the horse chestnut trees has become a housing development, although Jubilee House was built by Daniel Goddard and Sons in c1935. On the right is the butcher's shop.