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This great house near Fowey was the seat of the Rashleigh family. It was surrounded by its own wooded grounds, leading down to the sea at Polridmouth Bay.

To the east, beyond the town hall, houses grew up along the road out of the town as it descended off the ridge towards the River Colne.

Plenty of stone-built houses and cottages stand in the shadow of Wytham Great Wood, and just to the south lies 700-acre Wytham Park. The house is now part of Oxford University.

This delightful house, originally known as Halton Grange, was built by the soap manufacturer, Thomas Johnson in the 1850s.

Strangely, in an area where most old timber houses are having their plaster removed, the black and white house pictured here has since been plastered and painted white.

The house nearest the camera was once the village poorhouse. It dates from the 16th century.

This five-storey L-plan tower house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar.

The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.

This photograph shows the range of substantial brick-fronted Georgian houses at the north end.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

The Court House gets its name because it was once, in the 16th century, the home of a leading lawyer and speaker in the House of Commons.

These early industrial houses no longer remain, but the Britannia Inn, where the workers drank, has survived from the 1840s. The Bridge End public house (right) has much more recent origins.

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

In 1837, the White Horse was just a small beer house. It was recorded as 'a cottage and a garden owned by John Marshall of Hitchin and occupied by Sarah Buckle, widow'.

The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.

The house and shop to the left have been demolished. Off to the left are the first rural council houses in England, built in 1893.

The Palladian-style building on the extreme left of the picture houses the Council offices; the town's court house was formerly here.

The house on the left - The Laurels - is now, indeed, called Pond House.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

The original house, built by Mr Hutchinson Brown, was bought by Charles Birch Crisp who, in 1910, commissioned newly-qualified architect Oliver Hill to enlarge the house and design the gardens.

Behind on the left is a house called Belle Vue, later Whitcliffe Grange, now demolished and replaced by council houses. Beyond is Westfields, one of the town's three medieval open fields.

The sign in the background reads 'This House For Sale' - a restrained version of the estate agent's notices of today.

Dartmoor Prison at Princetown was built in 1806, initially to house French prisoners of war.