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The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel, which incorporates part of a 16th-century half-timbered house, and which is famous as a high-class restaurant, is on the left.

The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.

Notice particularly the pot plants on the porch of the nearby house, and also the horse droppings in the roadway.

The toll house is the brick building on the left - a sign lists the charges, stating that because the bridge is privately owned, even soldiers on duty AND the Royal Family are obliged to pay to cross over

This picture shows a pond considerably bigger than that which remains today; beyond lies The Lamb public house.

Its predecessor was St Edith's - a house of Ursuline Sisters at the southern end of the High Street. They celebrated Mass there from 1910 until they left the town three years later.

Some of the trees remain, while there is new housing, Saffrons Park and Court, behind the left hand flint walls, which also survive.

The Royal Aquarium, to the left, was built in 1875 to house a skating rink and aquarium: it later became a cinema.

It remains today, painted an eye-catching green and yellow, at the busy junction at the top of Broad Street, whilst the Wheel public house (left) was demolished in 1980 to make way for flats.

The rear wing of the furthest house has now been raised to two storeys. On the opposite corner is the garage.

Today the building houses a small museum, which displays local history, archaeological artefacts found in the area, and mementoes of Thomas Hughes and Sir John Betjeman, who once lived in the village.

They are good examples of timber-framed houses with brick in-fill and casement windows. Today, owing to the expense of replacing thatch, both cottages have slate roofs.

The castle stands opposite Netley Abbey; most of the surrounding area has now been filled with housing. This extravagant building is located on the shore; it mostly dates from the late 19th century.

There are two large Georgian houses and some nicely thatched cottages. It is still a peaceful village, although there is more traffic.

There is no change in this beautiful and tranquil scene as the river gently flows by the lovely thatched house onwards to Gibraltar Point.

The boathouse on the opposite bank belongs to Sharpham House, the Georgian pile visible above the trees, which was designed by Sir Robert Taylor.

In the foreground is the Old Poor House: note its original 16th-century chimneys and casements.

The roadway just had a few large private houses, until developers inserted the shopping parades and widened the carriageway in the 1930s.

Charles Towneley, the 'great collector' as he is sometimes known, had plans for the housing of his collection of classical antiquities at Towneley Hall.

Next door, the Gate House Tea Rooms boasts some lovely 16th-century linenfold panelling.

It was in this village, in an old malt house, that pictures from the National Gallery were once stored, well away from London's air raids, during the Second World War.

This is a rugged and treeless landscape, where the settlement consists of a few fishermen's houses and a small thatched croft.

Nestled in a fold of the Cotswolds, the neat village of Cornwell is one of a piece with the beautiful stone manor house just to the west, providing a unified design rare in Oxfordshire.

The circular building on the right used to be the house of a canal lengthsman, or maintenance man.