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This old school was built in the 1850s, but in recent years it has been converted into a number of separate private houses.

The leafy Victorian estate village of Canford Magna was created by the Guest family of Canford House for their staff.

In the distance is St John's Church, Bridgetown; the wooded hill to the right is now the large housing estate of Westonfields.

A small number of houses still manages to support a pub and grocery store - this one is part of the Mace chain.

Topsham's merchant adventurers used Dutch brick brought over as ballast in otherwise empty ships to build these gabled houses in the Dutch style.

Its delightful thatched toll house was built in 1758, and has been recently renovated and slightly extended.

Par Green has since been made a one-way street, and the pub is a private house.

The sign reads 'The smallest public house in England, originally a blacksmith's shop. King Charles I stopped here to have his horse shod.

Eventually, any trace of its previous prosperity became submerged beneath the houses and the harbour mud.

At this time the street narrowed, because of a row of houses surviving in the middle of the roadway.

The lock, its footbridge and the lock-keeper's house have all recently been completely rebuilt as part of a major programme of upgrading all the locks and weirs along the Thames above Marlow.

The chimneyed building to the right of the gate- house was demolished by 1904 to make way for the Shire Hall seen in later views.

The Victorian Methodist church beyond and Georgian Ilex Court beyond that remain, backed by orchards and separated by closes of new houses.

In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.

This grand manor house, now a hotel, was built during the Elizabethan period, but was considerably extended by its Victorian occupants.

It became the Grammar School in 1921, but was demolished in 1998 and the site developed for housing.

Hiding in the tree by day, he hid in a priest's hole in Boscobel House at night until the Roundheads abandoned their search and he was able to make his way to safety.

The owners of Gayton Flour Mill built all these properties to house their workers.

The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.

The house on the right is now described as Maltravers, '18th-century restaurant'. Beth Chatto's well-known garden can be found on the edge of the village.

The tower of the steam engine house has now been demolished. The water mill is 18th-century, with three pairs of wheels driven by a cast iron breast-shot wheel.

On the eastern edge of Barnt Green, Bittell Lane is built up, but the houses are set in fairly large gardens and there is still almost a semi-rural feel.

The George Hotel was once two medieval houses. Nearby is the garage selling Cleveland petrol, and a child sits on the wall of Castle Green.

The elegance of this 1860s stucco terrace with three-storey bay windows to each house and the long straight para- pet is now replaced by Grand Court, a higher block of 1960s flats: typical sea-front