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The bridge, complete with pedestrian refuges, is thought to be 15th-century: some of the houses facing the bridge date from the early 17th to early 19th centuries.

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

In the picture there are close-studded timber-framed houses on the left, including Sexton's shop. The Hay Wagon Inn is just visible on the right, with a temporary sign.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large number of country houses were built in the castellated style.

Sadly the trees have gone, along with the house on the far left, which was part of Sutton High School for Boys.

The view is little changed apart from the outbuilding on the right with the two dormer windows which is now a house, Tansy Cottage.

The shops on the left were originally dwelling houses dating from 1760. Note the wide pavements - an indication of the 'quality' of the area.

The attached manor house was erected in 1614.

In 1900 the house belonged to Sir Thomas Colyer-Ferguson. In 1953 it belonged to an American, Charles Henry Robinson, who bequeathed it to the National Trust in 1985.

The King's Arms (left) is a fine example of a coaching inn and former posting house. Stables to the rear were reached through the archway leading from the town square.

On the far bank is an attractive thatched waterside summer-house which also acts as a boathouse.

The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house. Further down the street is the gable of the Methodist chapel. In the distance is the sign of the Wheatsheaf.

The gable end is part of a 15th-century Wealden house. The stone was brought here from Somerton in 1713 on a sledge pulled by 45 horses to commemorate the Treaty of Utrecht.

The inn dates from the mid 17th century; it was originally a manor house for the agent to the Manners family at nearby Haddon Hall as we can see from their peacock crest over the porch.

The Red Lion public house and the National Westminster Bank in the centre of the picture are still there, but Burgon's grocery store (right) is long gone.

High House Farm, far right, was the home of the dominant agricultural owner in the 17th century.

Three miles inland from Hornsea, Seaton was an estate village surrounding the old manor house. It has two village greens and a pond.

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Stone-built weavers' houses, carpet weaving mills, and rope works all jostled for space along the banks of the river.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

The road on the right, Vaughan Road, now leads into an estate with a number of new houses.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

By the middle 1930s the Borough Council had outgrown the offices at the Town Hall, and departments were housed in various buildings around the town.

The view from Kingston Lacy House shows the wooded Badbury Rings on the horizon.