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Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden. St Mary's church can be glimpsed in the middle distance.

This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken. Dickens died here on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58.

The Eight Bells (left) closed in the 1980s and is now Peal House. Many other houses have a bell connection. The Post Office Stores on the corner closed in 1991.

The house opposite is The Wakes, now a museum illustrating the story of naturalist and explorer Francis Oates and of his nephew Captain Lawrence Oates, who joined the fateful Antarctic expedition in 1911

The brick wall on the left encloses the grounds of Shelton House, the best building in the village, a late 18th- century brick house predating Woburn Sands' arrival; it is now offices.

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny is an example of a departure from the traditional approach to the design of country houses

It now houses a splendid museum.

Lanhydrock House, once the seat of the Robartes family, is now one of the National Trust's best-loved Cornish properties.

Wollaston expanded farther after World War II and this view is of former council housing, part of an estate built in the south-east of the town.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

The great house was New Place; it has now been converted into cottages. It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

The ancient Market Cross with its sundial dominates the High Street in Barlborough, opposite the Rose and Crown public house, which is on the right of this 50s photograph.

This is the River Deben, viewed from near the Sailing Club House looking downstream towards White House; Waldringfield is to the right and Petistree Hall, in Sutton, is over to the left.

The ducks still paddle on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office and Stores (centre) is just a house now.

Tattershall has lost its railway, but it still has its castle, and Tom Thumb's house is still on top of a house on the left of the market place.

The Manor House (centre left) with its 19th-century brick façade is central to the market place. The houses to the left have been replaced, and those beyond restored.

On the left side of Ceylon House is the post office and to the right the grocer's and provision's shop, both run by William Lowrey. Today both businesses are in the right half of the building.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

Centre right is the Ship Inn, and on the left the Lifeboat House. Porthleven's first lifeboat, in 1863, was the 'Agar Robartes', which was replaced in 1882 by the 'Charles Henry White'.

The house incorporates a 15th-century hall house.

This view shows a varied mixture of buildings in the central part of this small village, with a tiled dormer-windowed cottage and a weather-boarded two storey house on the left, while on the right stands

One of Chilworth's buildings, originally designed to house the squire's hounds, became the village post office six years before this photograph was taken.

One of Chilworth's buildings, originally designed to house the squire's hounds, became the village post office six years before this photograph was taken.

The house in the distance has been demolished, and rather picturesque town houses now surround the back of the marina.