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Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Earlier in the century, the half-timbered building housed a pair of shops. They are now private dwellings. Like the white house next door, they date from the 16th century.

Brackenwood House, shown here covered in Virginia creeper, dates back to the 1880s. It was purchased by Bebington Council in the 1920s for use as council offices.

The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

Constructed c1600, this was probably a yeoman farmer`s house associated with the Hallingbury Park estate. It was later split into two cottages, one of which was the local police house.

In 1933 a house clearance and house building scheme was developed at Broadwaters.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor-style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

Rising above Canada House we can see the 18-storey New Zealand House, which opened in 1965.

This is a scene of contrasts, featuring Manor Cottage, an 18th-century thatched stone-built house, and the dull 1960s house to the left. The bus shelter remains, but re-roofed in sheet metal.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly's great houses to survive.

We see good examples of slate-hung houses; these slates are large, and they have even been used to board up the windows of the disused house on the right.

Crichel House 1904. Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time.

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

The Custom House is a memorial to the importance and value of sea trade to King's Lynn.

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.

Clarence House is now one of Essex County Council`s community education centres: it runs such things as residential art courses.

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window.

The Market House, seen here on the left, was built in 1772 and has fulfilled a variety of roles since.

Beyond the draper's awning is the Quaker Meeting House and Buzzards, the home of Thomas Gainsborough's uncle Thomas.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

Crown House provides a view of London Road and Morden Court and the slightly earlier mock Tudor York Close to the left.