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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.

A mile or so north of Ampthill, we divert right to visit the ruins of Houghton House.

This made Hicks a powerful landowner in the area, and to proclaim the fact he built himself an impressive seat named Campden House.

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors. The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

The tall house on the right was the Manse - it became a shop in the 1930s. The white building behind the RAC sign (right) was at one time the Master Tanner's House.

As well as the usual statutory facilities, such as tennis courts and a football ground, there is an attractive series of lakes and ponds, as well as Broomfield House with its stableyard, an early 18th-century

The short battlemented tower adorns an attractive group of 18th- and 19th-century houses at the south-eastern end of the village.

East Park was developed after 1880 with terraces of artisan housing, mostly built by James Longley and Sons who moved here from Turners Hill.

The clock in front of the garage at the end on Gaol Square replaced a fountain built to commemorate Thomas Sidney, born in the end house on the right.

At one time, elegant Victorian terraced houses, which were built between l835 and l857, graced the Parade. Apart from the last two terraced houses, these were demolished in the 1930s.

The recreation ground was created from a part of the extensive grounds of what was originally a private house called St Clair.

This view is from an upper balcony of Eldon House, one of the eleven-storey blocks of council flats built c1960 on the Loughborough Estate.

The 17th-century house had been demolished in 1802, and Rothschild remodelled and enlarged its replacement in 1835.

The baths were situated just to the north of the Boat House, where Gayton Sands Nature Reserve car park now stands. The Boat House is now an inn and restaurant.

The fine avenue of box trees was removed - box wood was in great demand by the Luton hat makers for use as blocking moulds - and houses and shops were built.

The grand pub and the simple working men's houses and shops in St Marks Road and First Avenue are all of a similar date.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west

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.