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They were all housed together, and would remain so until 1865, when special wards for infectious diseases and lunatics were established in a new block.

The miller's house is dated 1728, and the three-storey mill building is also 18th-century.

The old Post Office is now a house and the front gardens have been lost owing to the widening of the very busy road.

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

All these stone houses and cottages remain little altered, although the pavement is now smarter. The road has also been widened and has a pavement on the right.

It became yet another of Northamptonshire's boot and shoe manufacturing towns in the later 19th century and was greatly enlarged, with streets of Victorian terrace housing.

The house beyond, now enlarged, is the National Youth Resources Centre for the United Reformed Church. Young people can stay here either in single rooms or small dormitories.

Opposite Ludham Church an interesting row of thatched cottages adjoins two small Georgian houses, one with a slate roof and one with Norfolk tiles.

Three hundred feet above the sea, this white-painted Victorian lighthouse housed a two-ton turntable operating the revolving light.

Guarding the entrance to Falmouth harbour, this lighthouse was completed in 1835 to the design of the Trinity House engineer James Walker, who also designed the famous Needles Lighthouse on the Isle of

The increase of the houses of visitors must tend to spoil the original individuality of a population, but in Hastings these qualities are preserved to an unusual extent, especially among the fishermen.

It was originally intended for Sauvignac monks, but by 1147 it had become a Cistercian house.

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for his involvement in the Yorkshire uprising against the Dissolution.

Besides being empowered to replace the bridge, they cleared away numerous houses near St Paul's Church and the medieval Guildhall in their zeal - no doubt the area was in serious decay.

The tower looks down over the attractive village with its timber-framed cottages and Georgian houses.

The rather good Georgian houses beyond went in 1927, to be replaced by Holy Trinity's Walton Parish Hall.

His architect was Taylor, from Bierton, a village near Aylesbury; he was heavily influenced by George Devey, who had worked for Meyer de Rothschild at Ascott House, near Wing.

This tall hall, 80 feet in diameter, now houses a cinema, but was originally used as a venue for the hospital's fundraising events and functioned as an Assembly Hall in the 18th century.

'The Oldest Licensed House in Great Britain', claimed the sign, 'Licensed over 540 years'. This is very hard to prove, as early licences were issued very haphazardly, and for different reasons.

As at Brighton, large areas of working class housing arose away from the sea front.

On the right are the ruins of the Maison Dieu of about 1400, possibly a small monastic house dissolved by Henry VIII in 1546.

The handsome Dorset House next door is dated 1705. The motor car has one of the earliest registration plates (London, 1904) and may have been one of the first seen in East Grinstead.

Originally Caldecote Towers, this startling edifice was a mid-Victorian private house, built for Captain Marjoribanks Loftus Otway.