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Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.

When visiting Weobley, Charles I stayed in the Unicorn Inn, but that Unicorn was a totally different building which later became a house called 'The Throne'.

This statue of Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) stands outside the Bank of Ireland (formerly the Parliament House) and shows the great orator in the act of speaking.

The Ypres Tower of c1250 was sold in 1430 to John de Ypres as a house. This is inexplicable, bearing in mind the French raid of 1377. A prison from 1518 to 1865, it is now a museum.

It retains its rural seclusion in spite of recent threats: plans for a major housing development, just north of here at Tillingham Hall, were challenged and overturned in 1987.

To a current inhabitant, the most striking feature of this view is the absence of houses in the centre.

Nearby, Chipping Croft is a 17th-century house to which an elegant balcony was added in Regency times.

The Abbey was founded by the Premonstratensians; they were an order noted for preferring secluded areas, both for building their religious houses and for rearing their sheep.

The long fields in the distance were filled with houses soon after this picture was taken, with the development of the Basildon Drive estate.

Across the river on the hillside is The Cottage, a mock-Tudor house with plaster pargetting standing amid rhododendrons.

This view now would include houses on the field and the school area. St John's church is in the background.

Originally the site of a Roman villa in the 1st or 2nd century AD, and on Ermine Street, this outlying hamlet has gradually been absorbed into expanding Gloucester; many of its older houses have been

The Doric pediment above the doorway of the house to the right reminds us of our links with classical Greece.

This tower mill still stands, though it is now a private house and has lost its sails.

Both the Congregational Church and the houses next to it on the left were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the town's Magistrates Court.

The abbey was founded by the Premonstraterians; they were an order noted for preferring secluded areas, both for building their religious houses and for rearing their sheep.

In later years the building was converted to a private house.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

On the left is Bleak House, now castellated, and on the right the pier and little harbour. Broadstairs retains its Dickens association with its annual Dickens Festival.

What is thought to be the oldest inhabited house in Cheshire is also near Alderley Edge: the stone-built portion of Chorley Hall is thought to date from about 1330, the remainder being Elizabethan.

The quay has been straightened and raised, but the houses behind are substantially unchanged. Inevitably, the type of boat that ties up today has also changed somewhat.

Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery. The confectionery shop and the chemist's (right) are now private cottages.

The cottage pictured here has now gone, to be replaced by a brick house which was only built in 2001.

Beckhampton House and stables, on the left, are currently owned by Roger Charlton.