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Yet it has a long history with a number of attractive 18th- and 19th-century houses tucked away in the lanes of the Old Town.

Imphal Barracks covered a huge area, and could house at least one cavalry regiment and an infantry battalion, as well as providing support for reservists, volunteer units and recruit training.

The front of the shop to the right is unchanged since Edwardian days and is now Coltishall Pharmacy, but the corner where the confectioner's small shop stood has been redeveloped and now houses Coltishall

A previ- ous owner, the Blaenavon industrialist James Hill, had spent a lot of money on the house. Today it is part of the modern Nevill Hall Hospital, which was built in the 1960s.

The house across the river is Pen-y-worlod.

The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer.

This quaint old house sits on a corner in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

They were all housed together, and would remain so until 1865, when special wards for infectious diseases and lunatics were established in a new block.

The miller's house is dated 1728, and the three-storey mill building is also 18th-century.

The old Post Office is now a house and the front gardens have been lost owing to the widening of the very busy road.

Set in 98 acres of parkland, St Fagan's was donated for use as a National Museum by the Earl of Plymouth and now houses the Welsh National Folk Museum.

Behind, Manor Park House can be seen before it was demolished in 1976. The site was used for the new Central Library.

On the lane south from the crossroads the last two houses on the left are timber-framed, the White Cottage on the left with original framing in the side elevation and fake to the front.

The roof of the Market House, to the left of the picture, dates back to the 16th century and was preserved when road-widening operations took place in 1937.

Modern housing and indus- trial development crowd in from all directions, making it almost impossible to stand here and spot passing liners on Southampton Water.

The post office cum garage is now a house named, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office. To the left is the churchyard wall.

It was known as The Coffee House in 1983.

Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

These payments were collected at the toll, or pyke, house, the octagonal, Gothic-style building pictured here. Above the doorway is the list of 'Tolls authorised to be taken at this gate.

Above the trees is the Water Tower, disguised as the House in the Clouds.

The central house was the post office until 1997. The further building is the Lord Nelson, whose sign has been moved to the car park. Note the classic bubble car of the period (right).

A real coach party - that is, a party using a coach and horses - arrives at the stable block at Haddon Hall. The bowler-hatted gentlemen alight to face the climb up to the house.

A shooting lodge became the Youth Hostel and later housed the post office.

In the 1960s, the pace of building new housing quickened. Caton is popular as a retreat for commuters, who enjoy the moorland country near by with its fine views of Morecambe Bay.