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Building work began in 1573, in the reign of Elizabeth I, and the house has been the home of the Spencer family ever since.

Many of the houses in the old part of Aynho are built of local limestone, and most were originally thatched.

Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons.

Newquay had a lifeboat from 1860, and a new lifeboat house and launching slip were erected on Towan Head in 1899.

Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

Eskdale Green, a stop on the popular Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow gauge railway, is perhaps best known for its Outward Bound Mountain School, housed in this former Victorian mansion.

The houses stand on a hairpin bend of the road that leads to Hornsea. There seem to be more advertisements for cigarettes than anything else here.

Many of the original houses are now blocks of flats.

Tower Street, its houses mostly mid-Victorian terraces and semi-detached villas, some dated 1879 and 1880, has its vista closed by one of England's most stunningly effective buildings: the Boston Stump

This view of the north or garden front shows the design of this beautiful and well-proportioned house with its projecting side wings and pedimented centre, the whole forming a letter H plan.

Bordering the wonderful weald of Kent, Chipstead is near the great house of Chevening - a favourite spot for Prince Charles.

However, it is hard to be impressed by the sterility of this brutal-looking enclosure which houses a highly intelligent animal whose native habitat is densely vegetated.

The Crown and Anchor (left) was once a private house; parts of the building are believed to date from the 14th and 15th centuries.

The Department of the Environment's 'List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest' notes the row of late 18th-century and early 19th-century houses on the right, with their

With all those pilgrims coming to visit what they thought was Mary Arden's house, it was obviously necessary for Wilmcote to provide refreshments and accommodation, and The Swan did just that.

Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales. R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was born in the village.

Along the High Street you will find many old inns and some fine 16th- and 17th-century houses.

The thatched cottages are no more; the nearest has been replaced by a no doubt very functional large brick house.

The tall yew trees, now gone, were already old when this picture was taken, but they gave their name to adjacent Yew Tree House.

A meeting house was eventually established, and the first chapel was opened by Wesley himself in 1765.

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

Its two public houses, the Anchor and the King William, are at the end of a long street whose buildings present an intriguing mix of architectural styles.

In the early 19th century, the bell-tower was used to house French prisoners of war: one, shot while trying to escape, is buried in the adjoining churchyard.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.