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Set in beautiful woodland with a commanding view over the lake, this house was built in the grounds of the original Old Hall, which no longer exists.

name from Hadleigh Castle.Although this photograph shows the High Street, it lacks the bustle we see today.A small garage is tucked in next to a café on the right, whilst on the left brick-built houses

Tradition alleges that Athelhampton is the site of a palace of the Saxon King Athelstan, though the present house is largely Tudor.

Many houses carry the shield of the Ancaster family, for this was an estate village from the 1760s until 1925, when the Normanton Park Estate of the Earl of Ancaster was sold and dispersed.

If you visit today, you will see no television aerials on the roofs, for Lord Clitheroe installed an underground cabled system to each house to preserve the unspoilt character of the village

Just beyond the Market House stands the Town Hall, its prominent clock tower topped by an intricate weather vane.

Buildings in the foreground now house the fascinating Helmshore Textile Museum.

Later, brought within easy travelling distance of Liverpool by the railway, wealthy businessmen built comfortable houses away from the city's grime.

This fact could be slightly awkward for Roman Court and Roman Bridge Lane, two newly-built housing developments nearby.

To the left is South Africa House, which was built on the site of Morley's Hotel in 1930; the architect, Sir Herbert Baker, attempted to complement the nearby St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

For centuries Rottingdean was a typical downland village, but its character was radically changed when modern roads and houses were constructed at the seaward end.

Olton Boulevard East was created from former country lanes in 1928, to serve a vast municipal housing estate reckoned to be a model of its kind.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

Amongst the facilities provided by the Cliftons was the old lifeboat house, built largely from cobbles and overlooking the promenade wall.

Its site is now occupied by a housing development.

In the 18th century, fast flowing streams powered a variety of mills around the village, and many of its cottages date from this period, built to house an expanding work force.

Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.

We can see the house with a large chimney stack in both photographs. The tidal river is the remains of the Dunwich river, diverted in the storms of 1289.

the upper windows of the building on the right is a fire insurance plaque, which signified that the owner had paid for the services of the fire brigade in the unfortunate event of the house

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

Penrhyn, however, is not an old fortress, but a Victorian country house built on the grand scale.

This house was built by a lawyer in the early 1600s. By the end of that century it had become an inn with stabling for 100 horses. The carved balcony above the doorway is a 19th century addition.