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the old Tring silk mill, and Tringford Road on the right; the photographer is standing in Bulbourne Road where it meets the Icknield Way, which goes straight on past the 1950s council houses

Once entirely dependent on farming , its downland location makes it an attractive settlement for more affluent newcomers, and the one-time council houses display the spirit of Thatcher-age

It now houses the regimental museum of The Green Howards.

The Huer's House stands outlined on the slope above. The large Atlantic Hotel, which now dominates the headland, was not built until 1893.

He died at the house in 1820, though not before he had taken his baby daughter in his arms to see the sea, boasting to locals 'one day she will be your queen'.

Most of the old houses here were built in the 18th and 19th centuries using stone from the remains of the De Vaux College, which was established here by the Bishop to train the clergy as early

The assassin fired his musket from an upper window in a house belonging to the archbishop of St Andrews, who also appears to have supplied the getaway horse.

These occupy the site of houses demolished in 1848 that had been built as encroachments along the centre of the Market Place.

Mount Terrace (left) was the first row of houses to be built next to the Mount. Like London Street, Bold Street was envisaged as a tree-lined boulevard; in later years the trees had to be pollarded.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

Before this date, and even in medieval times, the village had at least two ale houses. The inn has beautiful gardens, and a putting green.

This very rare photograph, taken around 1876, is captioned the Palm House, but it shows what was usually known as the Great Conservatory.

On the left, at the top of Godstone Road, were J Kilby's livery stables, while on the opposite corner George's Uridge's grocery store and Lovegrove's clothing and outfitters are housed in grandiose buildings

Opposite the church is the Hoo, a large rambling house built in 1902.The Post Office proprietor was R F Brierley; alongside is the entrance to the builders' and decorators' yard, F J French & Sons

Tintagel is a 'must' on every tourist's itinerary, and the main street is full of hotels, guest houses and souvenir shops, many developed since writers such as Tennyson romanticised the legend of King

East Barsham's manor house was built by Sir William Fermor during the reign of Henry VII. Henry VIII was a guest there, and walked 2 miles barefoot to the shrine at Walsingham.

The houses on the left were demolished to make way for an office block, whilst beyond the maisonettes on the right is a glimpse of the then new residential development of Jireh Court.

The two gables on the left are part of a 15th-century house called The Chantry. The rest of the structure is Salters Hall, the highest quality timber-framed building in Sudbury.

The large house is the Victorian Croft Lodge with its single-story stable block.

To the right is Borehamgate House, demolished in 1965 for a shopping precinct.

Bottomley did not pay his bills on time, and sometimes not at all, but he played the role of a genial squire with gusto; besides building estate cottages, he also bred race horses.

The stucco house on the left, most recently Banstead Builders Merchants, dates from around that time, while the station building retains some of the 1865 work.

The post office is now a house, The Gallery.

The popular composer Noel Coward later owned one of the small houses here.