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To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

The keep is 14th century, though it was rebuilt in 1840 to house students following the creation of Durham University in 1832. The castle was turned into a university college a few years later.

The toll- house was the white building on the left; the toll, as the name suggested, was a halfpenny.

A number of older houses became hotels in the last century to cope with the increased demand.

The inner relief road carved through here in the late 20th century from left to right, destroying the post office and the surrounding houses.

The many waterfront drinking houses would have tempted Portsmouth's shifting population of sailors. On the extreme right are the premises of the now defunct National Provincial Bank of England.

Also here, where numbers 26-32 now stand, was once the gaol and the Governor's House. Around and About Northumberland

Before reaching Chilbolton village, here is the Seven Stars public house and the beautiful River Test, viewed from the bridge. Across the water was once the railway.

But from 1870 until 1891 the house was the home of island owner George Cavendish- Bentinck, who preferred to live there rather than the Castle.

This well-known house takes its name from the Scandinavian ships that came up to Perran Wharf to discharge timber for the tin and copper mines many years ago.

Despite its name, this is actually a fortified manor house, one of the best in the country, built in the 14th-16th centuries by the Gilbert family.

The street is lined with a wide variety of buildings, including slate-hung houses with fine period shopfronts.

The tall timber-framed and thatched house behind, called 'Laurences', is dated 1548.

A couple of small shops now occupy the ground floor of the first house on the right. Blenheim Palace and Blenheim Park attract a large number of tourists to the town.

The George Inn, behind the cross, and the King's Arms (left) are now just houses.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

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

Most of the larger houses have been converted to hotels to cater for the hundreds of tourists that arrive every summer.

The houses were built on a fair sized, flat piece of land sheltered by Penny Nab. There was easy access to and from the sea for the cobles.

Before this, a hotel and some large lodging houses were already catering for people visiting the attractive inland mere to take advantage of the boating and fishing.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

This 210ft long room houses about 200,000 antiquarian books. The room was altered in 1857, with first and second floors thrown together under a timber barrel-vaulted roof.

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