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The two old houses in the centre show how piecemeal were the alterations carried out by various owners down the centuries: below each has a wall of stone rubble, and above at least two courses of brick

This view, looking south along High Street, has greatly changed: the thatched cottages have been demolished, and modern housing has been built on the right.

The windows on these houses are a mix of vertical sliding sashes, casements and horizontal sliding sashes, known as Norfolk sashes. Both trees in the churchyard survive today.

This well-known manor house was built by Sir William Fermor during the reign of Henry VII. Other families who lived here were the Calthorpes and Le Stranges.

The abbot of St Bennet's had a seat in the House of Lords. The drainage mill was erected over a magnificent gateway to the abbey, which looked more like a castle than a cloister.

Centre, on the horizon, is All Hallows Church, and near it is Hart House. An oak sign, erected in 1937, tells us that the street they stand on is part of Harthill Walk, mentioned in Scott's Ivanhoe.

Once Scar House reservoir was completed, the line was dismantled - to the dismay of many railway fans.

Charles Francis Hansom was the architect of both these religious houses, after the trend-setting Pugin pulled out of the designing of the priory.

The southern end of this road is in direct alignment with a Norman moated enclosure and a flat house platform in the pasture beyond the church.

To the left of the Market Hall is the back of the former Court House.

the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still popular with its cafes, public houses

On the left is the former toll house of the Basingstoke, Odiham and Alton Turnpike Trust, established in 1736.

Other changes are that Mason's (left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque

In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.

The bridge across the Ouse at St Ives was built in medieval times.

St Mary-le-Bow is thought to occupy the site of the first Saxon church to be built on the peninsula - this is where St Cuthbert's remains were housed when they were first brought to Durham.

It is a delightful village with mostly 18th-century houses, with a sprinkling of 19th-century estate cottages, such as those with the slate-roofed dormers on the left, dated 1858.

The church and a cluster of old houses are at the top of the hill, and more old buildings are on the river bank, east and west of the Bognor Road river bridge.

The gabled and bay-windowed houses beyond were demolished a few years ago for the inner relief road. Sussex Towns From Chichester to Uckfield

The houses of the village seem to perch on the very quarry edge.

Here the visible semi-detached houses are No 39 (right of centre) to No 45 (far right).

By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school. Note the round-arched windows and the ornamental bargeboards that are characteristic of the 1860s and early 1870s.

This view looks north up Church Street with No 15 on the left, a medieval house with a good crown post roof, and on the right the toy shop with the evocative names of makes of toy on its facade is now

Certainly many of the current properties in the village are thatched and show the form of construction used on the house in the foreground.