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Originally a village of scattered houses beside a long rectangular Green with a triangular north end, it spawned a commuter village in the 1930s based around Croxley Station.

buildings beyond the present Nationwide were rebuilt before the First World War and part is now the Pennsylvania pub, a reference to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania in the USA, who lived at Basing House

Much of the building is of Tudor origin, but later additions are said to include panelling removed from Houghton House (see 39964). The Market Place has been redeveloped as a Millennium project.

The house opposite is Nant Myniawyd.

Its bell tower housed a carillon of 35 bells, cast at Louvain, and installed at a cost of more than £2,000. People would gather on the surrounding hills to listen to its peal.

Gales and floods have destroyed many old buildings in Wells, but there are still some early 17th-century flint and brick houses to be seen.

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree and originally a posting and coaching house, The Royal Anchor Hotel (centre) dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' here.

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree and originally a posting and coaching house, The Royal Anchor Hotel (centre) dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' here.

The Brown Cow and the Black Bull, built in 1855, were voted 'excellent', as was Hudson's ice cream shop, which was housed in what was originally the toll bar premises.

Ramsgate is the third in the trinity of Thanet holiday resorts; its attractions would have been familiar to the young Princess Victoria, who as a small girl stayed in a house near the bandstand on the

We now move east to The Poultry, the street along the south side of the Council House.

The beach is overlooked by the Georgian houses of Wellington Crescent. In the centre is the Sands station, owned by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which opened on 5 October 1863.

They are not there now - housing or car parks have taken their place. The road is still the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road. Remember Green Shield Stamps? The garage on the right offered them!

Notice the superb thatching on the house on the left. Further down, near all the cars, is Frydays, a good fish and chip shop and restaurant.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Towards the southern end of London Road, the 'tip-up' cart is parked waiting for its horse to be harnessed, whilst a milk cart (left) winds slowly up the hill towards the Congregational church close to

Of all the buildings, only the house in the distance on the left, No 1 Ermine Street, survives. It reminds us that Buntingford High Street and Royston Road follow the line of the Roman Ermine Street.

The school was renamed Roger de Clare School in 1969 when Mr Pritchard was head teacher; it moved to new premises in 1974, when the building was converted to housing.

The earth mounds in the foreground may be relics of those activities, but the houses are modern.

Auckland Castle, also known as Auckland Palace, began as a manor house built in about 1183 by Bishop Pudsey, but it was later converted into a castle by Bishop Anthony Bek in the 14th century

The forge was very important during the coaching era, and was still working in the 1920s, but it is no longer operating, and is now a private house.

It was once known as Clachan Dubh, (the dark village) because its mountain setting offered two hours less sunlight during winter evenings.

Almost all the houses are detached, and often individually designed. The Local Area Committee of the Borough Council is doing its best to maintain the special ambiance of the district.