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The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.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

Thought to have been built in the late 17th century, this fine old mill house, once one of ten in the Ramsbury area, was turned into a dwelling as late as the 1960s.

Behind it, its octagonal lantern rising above the tree line, is the School House, built in 1823 by Robert Abraham, also for Charles Francis.

Immediately opposite is the Broadmead Hotel, later to become the Picture House (the Torbay Cinema).

The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors

From the 17th century it was a pumping house for the town's water supply - the wheel was turned by horses. Nearby we can see the York Water Works Offices.

The Anchor has since undergone a change of name to the Old Court House, in recognition of a tradition that it once was the venue for court proceedings.

Portland House, on the right, became ye Old Oak Cafe‚ and was eventually demolished in 1936 to make way for Coronation Road.

Snow's is now a house called, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.

The remnants were demolished in 1964 and replaced by a housing estate.

The Nag's Head public house was one of many around Stafford controlled by Joule's Brewery of Stone, established in the 18th century and closed in 1972.

With declining congregations, it closed in 1976 and was later demolished to make way for a Sheltered Housing scheme.

The centre of the village, with its attractive houses round the green, is marked by a market cross reminding us that Henry III had granted a license to Thomas de Greystoke for a weekly market and fair

On the left is a corner of the Norman House, built in stone around 1180.

The Honeypot Lane Murders Just around the corner from this innovative, crescent-shaped block of 50 town houses is Honeypot Lane.

'The First and Last Refreshment House in England' doubtless took full advantage of the captive audience.

This is the monument to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, builder of Burghley House and perhaps the most famous member of the Cecil family.

The premises on the left include a tobacconist, a public house, a grocer, a draper, a TV and radio shop, a ladies' clothes shop and a footwear shop.

Such was the attraction of Hiltingbury Common that a number of roads were cut through the woodlands, and large houses were built here with reasonably large gardens in a pleasant woodland setting.

Today the upper floor is used as a Heritage Centre and houses a museum that tells the history of the town.

Houses and shops cluster about the Town Quay. In the background, behind the King of Prussia, is the imposing tower of the church of St Fimbarrus.

This graceful thoroughfare of plain, unadorned granite-faced houses was built in 1795, and was considered the wonder of Cornwall.