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On the right, we have W J Roberts, a shoe repairer, and next to him is Philpott's, the house furnisher.

The church is to the east of the house and looks like a personal chapel, as the village is further away to the west beyond the gates.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

The annexe sideways to the road has gone, and the house standing back from the road has been replaced by a bungalow. One of the two houses on the right, Highfield View, now has a porch.

The war memorial stands on a site formerly occupied by a stable, a coach house and two single-storey houses.

The late Victorian Red Lion pub on the left is closed and for sale (January 2004), while the post office on the right is, as in many other villages, closed and now a house, Post Office House.

The house was built as a 15th-century open hall house, but it was altered in the 17th century.

In the foreground, on the corner of Dungates Lane, is this 16th-century timber-framed house, now subdivided; its left gabled crosswing is a house, and the rest is now the Buckland Stores, and all virtually

Further along, also on the left, is Cradle's House, a 14th-century hall house, which has recently been restored, a sad reminder of what the town has lost.

The house is L-shaped, and it is no longer either a post office or a tea room. The telephone box has gone too. The house is now called, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office.

To its right is Trinity House, a good stone house in the style of a William Butterfield rectory, built as the manse by J Woodman, who had designed the church.

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border.

The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men.

The High Street turns north, and it and the town end abruptly at the River Great Ouse, which flows through meadows liable to flooding.

Increased river traffic led to this opening bridge being constructed in 1913, at the same time as the hydraulic pumping house (behind with the tall chimney).

It retains its medieval plan and character remarkably with tall houses lining its narrow street, many of them timber-framed and jettied, including King John's Hunting Lodge on the left; it is a house

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

This view is from an upper balcony of Eldon House, one of the eleven-storey blocks of council flats built c1960 on the Loughborough Estate.

The 17th-century house had been demolished in 1802, and Rothschild remodelled and enlarged its replacement in 1835.

The grand pub and the simple working men's houses and shops in St Marks Road and First Avenue are all of a similar date.

In its time, it has held tea parties, dancing, football, cricket, flower shows, horse-races and prize-fights. There were once several ponds on the green: this is now the only one.

A farmer in the Neath valley who had moved to Merthyr, and had worked as a haulier and later a collier, he ran the Six Bells public house and brewery. In 1862 he opened the Six Bells coal level.

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.