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To the right and out of view is the village primary school, which incorporates a 16th-century timber-framed house.

When the third Lord Stanley inherited his title in 1869, being a Muslim, he closed all the public houses on his land.

On his death in 1762, his brother, Thomas, inherited his wealth and used some of it to enlarge the family house and landscape the grounds.

Gough, a Quaker, was buried in Tirril in the graveyard adjoining the Meeting House.

The Village 1923 Once back to the A39, continue east, and about a mile west of Minehead, turn left to descend into Bratton, a tucked- away village with an excellent 15th- century manor house,

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

The buildings in the market place are typical three-storey houses with shops underneath. Most are family-owned, supplemented by more well-known names such as Boots (left).

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

This old community, and the one at Felday, were joined together into the village of Holmbury St Mary in 1879,when wealthy Victorians popularised them and built large houses in the surrounding pine forests

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

In Church Road there are some older houses and the parish church; the south churchyard boundary runs along Church Lane to the left.

Attridge's (right) is now Grendon Stores, and the plot in the foreground now has a 1980s house, a better design than the dull bungalows on the left of about 1960.

Behind it is the Victorian village school, now a house. Behind the photographer on the left is a good timber-framed thatched cottage.

The tranquil scene captured here reminds us how large-scale housing development in the past few decades has changed the nature of so many former villages.

In 1929 its population was 129, in the 1940s it was 500, and in 1998 it was 4,500, with over 1,700 houses.

This was Sir Joseph Banks's house.

This street, which is on the periphery of the main shopping area of Stourbridge, has now become rather run down - a pity, since there are one or two fine houses here dating from the 1700s,

William Ransom, born in 1826 in the house at the north end of Bancroft, studied at Isaac Brown's Quaker Academy at the Triangle, Hitchin.

By the early 1920s Bishop Auckland was one of only a handful of 18-hole courses in County Durham; many, such as Barnard Castle, Felling, Ravensworth, Fence Houses (Lambton Collieries), and Durham City

Behind the crammed Edwardian beach, with boats launched into the millpond of a sea, most of the buildings of Grand Parade survive today, the notable exception being the small gabled house, now replaced

Around Cricket Green and along Church Road are some good late 18th- and early 19th-century houses.

John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim and Ramillies, and ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill, may have been born at Ashe House in 1650.

After the conversion of Poulett House to the Hotel Alexandra, the owner Archibald H Hinton boasted that this was Lyme's 'only hotel in its own grounds'.

Looking northwards we see hostelries, public houses and stores straddle the streets, highlighting Penrith's importance as a thoroughfare on the London to Carlisle and North East to North