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The name gives the game away - not so long ago it was farmland, and now it is a housing estate.

The toll house on the far span of Halfpenny Bridge explains the unusual name, because that is how much it cost to pass over this handsome construction when it was built in the 18th century.

Behind the sea-front boarding houses and overlooking Talbot Square is Sacred Heart Church, which was designed by Pugin in 1857.

In 1799 Samuel Compton developed his spinning mule here and now, a museum in the house charts the development of textile manufacture.

On the hillside, ¾ mile east of Towneley is this splendid house. Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

A later view, shows the Winter Gardens now completing the arc of guest houses and other buildings that overlook the wide promenade.

These cottages on the green, against the backdrop of the church, are probably the most photographed houses in Suffolk.

On the left is a terrace of brick houses and shops built c1865. Barclay's Bank closed in 2000, but the Co-op still trades from the ground floor, although it now has a mid-1990s shop front.

The occupants jumped to safety, but the Landrover buried itself in the roof of a house below; from there it had to be removed piecemeal, as the site was too inaccessible to use a crane.

Further up is the Mechanics' Institution, or Institute of Literature and Science, now housing the Wakefield Museum.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Its name is said to derive from a Saxon, Gromen (which translates simply as 'the man' or 'groom'), who built a moated castle where the 17th-century private house Groombridge Place now stands.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

Now renamed The Abbey Hotel, this terrace of houses became an hotel in 1879. It is part of the elder Wood's Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade.

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

The shops on the right had all been private houses only a few years earlier.

The house on the left was the bakery of William Kenny; hidden behind the next building is the Reading Room of 1858. To the right is Harry Nunn's hardware shop, which closed in c1980.

The end of the next house is made up of alternate courses of brick and beach pebbles. Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

The buildings housing the premises of Hedges & Son (right), however, have been demolished and replaced by a road and open space leading to a pedestrian shopping precinct.

The houses do not appear to have changed, and even the grass verge is still in good condition.

Next door there is now a bookmaker, and the Trustee Savings Bank building now houses Messrs Dexter & Sharp, who are accountants.

The Stilton Cheese public house takes it name from the famous blue cheese. It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

This famous coaching inn was one of 14 inns or ale-houses in the village in the 19th century.