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This tranquil street of handsome houses fringing the river was built in 1708.

It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

Early 19th-century bow-fronted and balconied houses jostle with mid-Victorian Italianate stucco at varying heights and scales.

Built in the 1880s as a memorial to William Thorngate, a philanthropic grocer and tea merchant who donated money for local housing, the Thorngate Hall was regularly used for public meetings until it was

The Marine House Hotel was built as a granary and later converted into a vicarage. Hindmarsh Hall is an 18th-century granary, gothicized in the 19th century.

Beyond Lloyds is Barclays, which incorporates an 18th-century house.

Here we see an attractive tiled house with Stevens' the newsagents attached to it. This shop also acted as an agent for the local dye works.

This well-known public house stands at the foot of the Downs. The area was noted for grazing sheep. There is a spring-fed well by the roadside next to the pub.

The thatched Chantry House, on the right, survived the devastating fire of 1795, which destroyed many of the older buildings in this once prosperous mediaeval market town.

This is an excellent example of the seemingly inexorable tide of uniform London County Council housing which swept northwards to engulf this former hamlet of Elstree after the Second World War.

This unusual view shows the Mount's estate houses and a harbour wall, with Marazion stretched out along the coast and Trencrom Hill rising behind on the extreme left.

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

At the south end of the village is Townend, a typical Lakeland statesman's house, now in the care of the National Trust.

These days, the building houses McDonald's fast food restaurant, who gave the site a much-needed facelift.

Standing on what was once a Roman site, the first manor house was erected in 1176 by William de Erleigh, whose family remained in possession for some 350 years.

This is a typical lodge house of the Ailesbury Estate variety; it bears Gothic features such as the ornate barge-boards and detailing to the eaves.

The Old House of 1678 is a prominently-sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

Cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the green, which is surrounded by public houses such as the Black Bull (centre) and the King's Arms (right).

Built with the guesthouse trade in mind, most of these houses actually became homes. Runton's population doubled between 1890 and 1930.

These attractive almshouses on Stydd Lane, complete with a well for their water, were built by John Shireburn in 1728 to house five Catholic spinsters or widows.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Before the building of the pier, passengers often had to be ferried to and from the steamers, which anchored off Warp House Point.