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Lansdowne House, the elegant building on the left, was home to local doctors for about 100 years. Jane Austen came with Miss Beckford of Chawton House to visit Dr Newnham here in 1811.

After the death of Frederick Crowley, Ashdell House was acquired by Guy Ferrand, who changed the name to Morland Hall.

The Flower Pot was originally in a building to the right of the present public house. It was first recorded in 1803 as an unlicensed beer house when it was owned by Thomas Driver Metcalf.

This view was taken from Nettlecombe looking towards the thatched Knapp House and St Mary's Parish Church (centre).

The long building on the right was the parish Town House, or Poor House, purchased in 1654 and in use until 1834.

Ellesmere House is beautifully sited just above the main road and overlooking the Mere. The building is now used as a residential home.

Built in the early 19th century, Preshute House was home to the Rev P W Taylor, MA at the time of this photograph.

The Friary was the Richmond town house of the Huttons, the squires of Marske; it later belonged to the Robinson family for many years.

The Friary was the Richmond town house of the Huttons, the squires of Marske; it later belonged to the Robinson family for many years.

This great house near Fowey was the seat of the Rashleigh family. It was surrounded by its own wooded grounds, leading down to the sea at Polridmouth Bay.

To the east, beyond the town hall, houses grew up along the road out of the town as it descended off the ridge towards the River Colne.

Plenty of stone-built houses and cottages stand in the shadow of Wytham Great Wood, and just to the south lies 700-acre Wytham Park. The house is now part of Oxford University.

This delightful house, originally known as Halton Grange, was built by the soap manufacturer, Thomas Johnson in the 1850s.

Strangely, in an area where most old timber houses are having their plaster removed, the black and white house pictured here has since been plastered and painted white.

The house nearest the camera was once the village poorhouse. It dates from the 16th century.

This five-storey L-plan tower house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar.

The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.

This photograph shows the range of substantial brick-fronted Georgian houses at the north end.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

The Court House gets its name because it was once, in the 16th century, the home of a leading lawyer and speaker in the House of Commons.

These early industrial houses no longer remain, but the Britannia Inn, where the workers drank, has survived from the 1840s. The Bridge End public house (right) has much more recent origins.

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

In 1837, the White Horse was just a small beer house. It was recorded as 'a cottage and a garden owned by John Marshall of Hitchin and occupied by Sarah Buckle, widow'.