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They were intended to house six poor men and six poor women of the town. A central domed cupola surmounts their six gables, each with its finial. Beyond is the Jolly Reaper inn.

These terraces of neat Edwardian bay-windowed houses survive, and lead towards the Town Hall with its tower.

The dome belongs to Antiquarius, the well-known antiques centre, and the vast block of flats in the distance is the 1930s eleven-storey Whitelands House.

The Mary Pym clock sits on top of the town's conduit, which had a trough for horses and a smaller one for dogs.

Upstream is Flint Mill (operational from 1772 to 1954, now converted to a house); this is the larger Thorp Arch Manor Mill, recorded in the Doomsday Book.

Brooklands, the imposing houses to the right, were built in 1900 to cater for the many Leeds commuters using nearby Bardsey station (open from 1876 to 1964).

The building on the left is the Tudor Town Hall, also known as the Town House or Geld Hall. It was certainly in existence in 1571, and is now occupied by Trembath Welch, the estate agents.

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

The building at the extreme left of the picture, behind the porch, was the first Methodist chapel in the town; it was later used to house Daventry's fire engine.

This building, a fine example of a Georgian town house, is now Barclays Bank.

premises have taken the place of some old one-storey shops; the new butchery department and offices take the place of a small brick hutment shop with the addition of a butcher's shop and house

The estate was sold off after Alexander's death, and by 1855 a number of cottages and houses had been built in what are now Westfield Road, St Leonard's Road, and Cadogan Road.

After buying the farmhouse of Townlands Farm in 1875, Charles Kempe promptly began to enlarge the property in a style in keeping with the existing small house.

The Merchants' Counting House, down Swale's Yard (right), was the meeting place for countless entrepreneurs from 1400 onwards; recently the building has been restored to an atmospheric pub.

Behind the photographer is the 1906 village school, and on the right the green has been enlarged with new houses built in the 1990s, Willetts Field.

The village has many attractive timber- framed and brick houses and cottages, now kept in immaculate order; these include Bay Tree Cottage on the left and Church Cottage on the right, which

The statue was presented to the town by Edwin James Trendell, who lived in Abbey House, and whose gardens occupied the site of the abbey church and monastic buildings.

Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

Newent has been a market town since Henry III granted it a charter in the 13th century, and it is appropriate that the Market House, which stands on stilts and is some four centuries old, is located

The building to the right, Cliff House, gained another storey soon after this photograph was taken; in the 1920s, it offered 'furnished apartments - an ideal spot for summer or winter residence

The 19th century house is now a hotel (the Stourport Manor Hotel).

Dates can be seen on house frontages - one drainpipe bears the date 1757.

Situated on the main coast road, this public house is extremely convenient for tourists and the villagers.

Kinmel Hall stands on a site said to date back to 1311, but this present country house emerged from the ashes of a former mansion destroyed by fire in 1848.