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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.

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

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

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

This photograph of Roebuck Ferry House is a reminder of the days when an un-accommodating landowner refused access to the Berkshire bank of the Thames.

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

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

plans to include a new pavilion in the Town Square to complement the Toni and Guy and Costa Coffee units, to replace the escalators with stairs and lifts, and to add two new floors to Northgate House

This view typifies the unforgettable appeal of Kersey: brick, timber and plastered houses are raised to allow for the slope, with higher and higher steps to the front doors, and there is a pleasing variety

Traffords Stores (right) is now a house, and so is the General Stores (left), where both the window and door are bricked up. The Crown Inn is on the extreme right behind the trees.

The photographer has managed to capture someone either entering or leaving his or her house.

In the centre is Dorset House, now taken over by the Dorset Arms for extra accommodation.

Lyte was the much loved Victorian parson of the fishing town, living high above the town at Berry Head House.

William Morris recorded an impression of 'enormous willows and queer suggestions of old houses on the banks'.

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

Luton has its parks to remind us of how great houses and landowners gave way to the needs of the many, with great estates being turned over to the people.

This view north towards Forest Hill Station shows the junction with Derby Hill as it was before the church on the left gave way to the Heron House office block.

Built in 1591 for Peter Warburton, MP for Chester, this fine town house passed into the hands of the Stanley family through the marriage of his daughter to Sir Thomas Stanley.

While wheat straw is often used as the roofing material, the chances are that these houses will be thatched with longer-lasting reed from the Broads.

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

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.

Here we are given a fine view of some of the Marine Parade guest houses, including the Granby and Ocean Spray. The Empire cinema (centre) is showing the film 'Tycoon.'