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A house was built here and connected to the mainland by a suspension footbridge in the early 20th century.

Downholme, where stone houses slope down to the Swale, lies 5 miles west of Richmond. In the village is a 13th-century Norman church.

The house was built in 1595 by Ninien Boord (his father had been court jester to King Henry VIII). The extensive estate was used by Canadian troops during World War II.

The parade of shops, right, has been demolished but those beyond have reverted to private houses.

The houses were fashionable residences, with balconies giving views over the park.

In the house lived the caretaker for the Assembly Rooms, and the shop was occupied by Moses P Stoodley, a watchmaker from Haslebury in Somerset.

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.There is a large amount of wonderful medieval

The terraces of houses on the Parade, previously broken only by Charles Place, is now broken by the building of a pair of detached properties (right), which were later joined to become the Gwalia Hotel

The large building on the right is Printing House Square, home of The Times.

To the right we can see the cupola of St Pancras's Church peeping above the Friends' Meeting House.

Little has changed, except that the brewery beyond the Bull Inn is now offices and housing.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

The street is lined with a wide variety of buildings, including slate-hung houses with fine period shopfronts.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This 210ft long room houses about 200,000 antiquarian books. The room was altered in 1857, with first and second floors thrown together under a timber barrel-vaulted roof.

But from 1870 until 1891 the house was the home of island owner George Cavendish- Bentinck, who preferred to live there rather than the Castle.

This well-known house takes its name from the Scandinavian ships that came up to Perran Wharf to discharge timber for the tin and copper mines many years ago.

Despite its name, this is actually a fortified manor house, one of the best in the country, built in the 14th-16th centuries by the Gilbert family.

The many waterfront drinking houses would have tempted Portsmouth's shifting population of sailors. On the extreme right are the premises of the now defunct National Provincial Bank of England.

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

Looking north at the junction of the Crawley and Godstone roads we see the Star Inn, a much re-built 17th-century timber framed house, although little altered since the 19th century.

Single-storey dormered cottages sit comfortably with the later elegance of the flat-fronted Georgian house further along the street.

In the foreground is the Old Poor House: note its original 16th-century chimneys and casements.