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Now Bedford High School for Girls, this fine building originally housed both the High School and the girls' Modern School.

The mansion incorporates a house designed by Sir Christopher Wren in the 1680s; it was enlarged and given a French Second Empire feel for Nathan Mayer Rothschild in the 1870s.

The Chandos Arms and the shops beyond are now 1970s offices, and on the right side of the road is Hampden House, a stylish but incongruous office block with shops on the ground floor.

Because of its obscurity, this hamlet by the river Hodder was chosen by the Quakers as the site for their Friends' Meeting House, which was also used as a school in 1767 (right, with the tall belfry).

Its construction was started in 1574 by the Comptons, who later became earls of Northampton, and the great courtyard house was completed in the earlier 17th century.

Foster Brothers Ltd occupied the ground floor; although the official name of the property is London House, it became known as 'Foster's Corner'.

The town itself is a fine one, with many good timber- framed, stone and brick houses.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

At its east end, down by the River Wey, is a superb brick manor house of the 1680s, which has been much altered subsequently and is now divided into apartments.

These twin towers with conical roofs flank a gateway that now only leads to a 20th-century housing estate, but it once led to The Towers, which we can see in view H120058.

The last view in this chapter and in the book looks from the large village green across the pond to housing typical of the development of Pirbright.

Originally two separate properties, this attractive house (the architect was Lutyens) has had a chequered career. Relatives of the Rothchild family lived here, and so did Lord Battersea.

Rivalling the castle in impressiveness, albeit on a lesser scale, is the Elizabethan town house of Robert Wynn, built between 1576 and 1585.

We are looking across the complex of locks and weirs on the Great Ouse, and little has changed today.

Less than ten years later, Huntingdonshire was merged with Cambridgeshire, and the residents could truthfully say that they were amongst the few that had lived in the same house but in three counties

The view is from Furze Close, beside the grounds of Ware House (to the left).

Mona House (left) was partly thatched until a fire in 1924, when Lady Jones was rescued from her bedroom window by the local publican climbing up a ladder.

Foster Brothers Ltd occupied the ground floor; although the official name of the property is London House, it became known as 'Foster's Corner'.

A commemorative tablet is on the wall of Bronte Cottage, the first house on the right next to the old road bridge.

A car at the toll gate waits as the gate is opened; the gatekeeper's house is adjacent to the gates.

On the left is the cupola of the old Customs House. The near-empty Harbour is the result of many fishing smacks lost during the First World War; the remainder transferred elsewhere.

The columns and gate house to the right of the war memorial formed the main entrance to Hooton Hall, the grounds of which are now a golf course.

In the far distance one can see the rooftops of modern housing estates built to accommodate incomers working for the new industry in the town.

The interior is of some interest; the Ravenscroft Chapel in the south aisle houses a fine alabaster figure of Thomas Ravenscroft, a local benefactor, dated 1630.