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This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

The pub on the right, a fine ironstone and thatch building, is now a house. The white-painted building was rebuilt in the 1960s as the village store and post office.

These gigantic sheds, originally painted black, were built to house airships: one was built in 1917 and extended to house R100, the other was built in 1927 for R101.

This was thought to have been the house in which Jane Austen stayed, but modern research shows that it must have been Pyne House, in Cornhill, above the Square.

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

This beautiful house would seem to be such an important asset to the village, but like so many others, all trace of it has now gone.

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a house

The old house here was restored and rebuilt in 1840 by Lord Howden to the designs of Decimus Burton, a London architect, who was also responsible for Hyde Park Corner.

Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

Batchworth Lock House beside it survives, but all else is changed: the island now sports a 1990s office block, Trinity Court, the far right has a riverside Tesco's.

Situated on the main street, many dated stone cottages housed the mill workers. The mill is now a private house. Captain Cuthbert Bradkirk came from Wray, near Carnforth.

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Among the old buildings, close to the new centre, is Barn House, an early barn conversion of little merit, Field End Farm House, Field End Lodge and Retreat Cottage, all timber-framed.

This is one of three monuments erected on the Sykes estate; it is directly opposite Sledmere House, and was erected in 1919.

The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood. When the English Civil War began in 1642, Parliamentary troops were garrisoned in Coleford.

The village was built to house the coalminers of nearby Costhorpe Colliery, now closed.

This unspoiled row of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses facing onto the church was built and owned mainly by small farmers and tradesmen, who formed the backbone of the rural affluent society

Beside the waters of the Great Stour, this great house in its pleasant parkland marks the original birthplace in 1380 of Cardinal Kempe, the ecclesiastical statesman.

In 1967 the building was converted to house the Pembrokeshire County Museum and Records Office. The latter is still housed there today.

The writer and social historian Thomas Carlyle was born in this house in 1795. It had been built by Carlyle's father and uncle just four years before—they were both stonemasons in the village.

On the right is the old mill house, now converted into flats. Left centre, just beyond the van, is a glimpse of the Prince of Wales public house.