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The mill ceased functioning in 1958, and the buildings were converted into a house (at the left) and bedroom suites for the new Upper Reaches Hotel, retaining the mill wheel as a feature inside.

It was here, dur- ing the heyday of the lead mining industry, that the lead was smelted in a mill, though the only intact remnant today is the peat house.

General Shubrick's clock over the door came from the Round House when the Andover Turnpike Trust was wound up.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.

The horse is still the only means of propulsion, but changes are afoot. The old house to the left of photograph 49616 has been replaced by a car garage.

The house on the left in Church Lane has recently been rethatched.

We see (centre) Force Head Farm (1711), and on the right the steps remain outside the bonny baby's house, which is dated 1695. Wensleydale

Built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Mersey, Halton passed by marriage in 1311 to the House of Lancaster, and was later a favourite hunting lodge of John of Gaunt.

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

This rough-cast, three-storied and three-gabled public house was built in 1615 beside the 12th-century flint church of St John the Evangelist, and its ales quenched the thirst of race-goers who flocked

Stolid Victorian shops and houses stood here alongside the main A25 road linking Guildford and Dorking.

Three manor houses, eighteen farms, a school and a church were demolished.

Knighton has managed to preserve its charming juxtaposition of period houses as we see here, and shows a very interesting townscape.

Although much smaller in capacity than the two nearby picture houses, the Granada and the Gaumont, it managed to survive into the 1970s, when its stylish façade was removed and it was transformed into

The petrol station and the nearby brewery have been converted to private houses, and so has the old Methodist church of St Cuthbert. The village post office, near the bus (right), remains.

In the foreground of the photograph we can see a beautiful and well-preserved timber-framed house, known as Savages.

This village green was also the site of the court house. Hatters, shoemakers and corn millers, along with stonemasons, joiners and blacksmiths, kept the village well supplied in the 19th century.

The blacksmith's forge used to be there too. 18th- and 19th-century sandstone houses, a village green and a pack horse bridge add to Croston's charm.

The imposing early 19th-century building to the right is timber-framed, with the ground floor of the house imitating stone blocks; the shop front has fluted Ionic pilasters.

East and south of the church, the High Street has a number of good houses, including the 18th-century Elm Farmhouse in the distance.

The house was demolished in 1951.

The garage with the three-wheeler outside, a good stucco Early Georgian house, is now offices.

There has been a beer house in the village for well over 200 years. The innkeepers were not choosey over how they obtained their spirits, and there was a great smuggling trade here.

For generations, Lever House has accommodated the main offices of Lever Brothers. Lever ensured that although they were closely linked, the factory and the village did not intrude on one another.