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This view is taken looking along Station Approach north from beside the station; at this date, the shops and houses are almost unchanged since they were built in the 1890s.

The houses here are built of local stone.The stream meanders through the centre of the village, and local children play pooh sticks and just watch the stream.The fortunes of the village have fluctated

Hartnoll Brothers (right), stationers and printers at Burlington House, were the proprietors of the Newquay Guardian and the Handbook to Newquay and North Cornwall.

Michael Sherbrook, rector of Wickersley, wrote: 'All things of price either spoiled, carted away, or defaced to the uttermost.....nothing was spared but the oxhouses and swinecoates and other such houses

A view of the King William IV public house, one of the four that existed in the village at this time.

General Wolfe spent his childhood in Quebec House and is said to have passed his last night in his beloved town at the George and Dragon, shown here in the foreground.

The shop has since been converted to a private house. The main line railway station is to the south of the village centre.

There has been an inn on this site since the 12th century; it was originally a cider house, part of an orchard. It now has a caravan park and a restaurant.

Its replacement is truly dire, but York House on the left survives.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village is still distinctly a village architecturally, with its 1586 Elizabethan manor house, recently freshly yellow ochre colourwashed.

These holiday caravans are sited behind Rivermead House.

To the right of this is the Council House, which was opened formally by HRH The Duke of Kent in December 1935. The Civic Gardens lie in front of them.

The 17th- century coaching inn, right, was converted to a pub as late as 1983, and is now a guest house, complete with stables and mounting block at the rear.

The post office, on the left here, is now a private house. The billboards outside advertise magazines such as 'Tit Bits' and 'Men Only'.

It is culverted under the main road, and collects in a large lake, which lies between Broadwaters Lane and the estate of houses.

The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.

During the Second World War, the Kent-born film director Michael Powell and his Archers production company featured the town and its oak beamed houses in his famous propaganda epic, 'A Canterbury Tale'

A number of these houses have been converted into shops to cater for the visitors and pilgrims who flock to this town and visit the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The mill house was the home of Golding Constable and his family from 1765 to 74, and it remained in their possession until the 1840s. Flour was taken downstream by lighters to Mistley for London.

Beyond is Pillar House, a timber-framed building with a Victorian brick façade. On the next corner is the 16th-century Bull (John Esling was the landlord), now closed.

At the end of the parade of shops on the right is the post office, and in the distance Broxmore, housing the doctor's surgery, stood on the site of the present Oakdene Parade.

The nearby parade once housed a sweetshop, a hairdresser's and a shoe shop – all long gone. The town's Regal Cinema closed in 1970, and is now used as a supermarket.

The Cambrian Hotel (left) stood on the site which had housed the Milford Arms since 1680 – it was renamed in 1870. The terrace was built c1865.

The Cambrian Hotel (left) stood on the site which had housed the Milford Arms since 1680 – it was renamed in 1870. The terrace was built c1865.