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The Water House was designed by John Smith (1830). The top storey was a cistern, supplying water to the city, all of which was below it at this time.

The Rising Sun public house is ideally situated to refresh visitors who moor their boats alongside the well-kept common.

New houses have sprung up in the village, and older properties have been restored; yet it remains a very pleasant community. The parish of Boddington is recorded in the Domesday Book as Botendon.

The lock keeper's cottage (left of photograph) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The house, barely visible behind the thick hedgerows, is of recent construction in stucco with tiled roof. The owner seems to like his Nissen huts.

made to Cromwell House in its restoration of 1929.

Like the Customs House, it was gutted by fire in the civil war, but was later restored.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time. This popular princess died at the age of 21.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

A rather similar view of the cathedral and the Jacobean house to its left appears on the current £20 bank note.

the upper windows of the building on the right is a fire insurance plaque, which signified that the owner had paid for the services of the fire brigade in the unfortunate event of the house

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

Penrhyn, however, is not an old fortress, but a Victorian country house built on the grand scale.

This house was built by a lawyer in the early 1600s. By the end of that century it had become an inn with stabling for 100 horses. The carved balcony above the doorway is a 19th century addition.

Thought to have been built in the late 17th century, this fine old mill house, once one of ten in the Ramsbury area, was turned into a dwelling as late as the 1960s.

Behind it, its octagonal lantern rising above the tree line, is the School House, built in 1823 by Robert Abraham, also for Charles Francis.

Immediately opposite is the Broadmead Hotel, later to become the Picture House (the Torbay Cinema).

The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors

From the 17th century it was a pumping house for the town's water supply - the wheel was turned by horses. Nearby we can see the York Water Works Offices.

The Anchor has since undergone a change of name to the Old Court House, in recognition of a tradition that it once was the venue for court proceedings.

Portland House, on the right, became ye Old Oak Cafe‚ and was eventually demolished in 1936 to make way for Coronation Road.

Snow's is now a house called, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.