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

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

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.

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.

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

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

It now houses a splendid museum. Huge sheep markets were held here, and the farmers and buyers refreshed themselves in the Woolpack, a convenient public house across the road from the castle.

The single-storey extension on the nearest house has been demolished, but there is something similar on the adjacent house.

The open land with the horse chestnut trees has become a housing development, although Jubilee House was built by Daniel Goddard and Sons in c1935. On the right is the butcher's shop.

The gap after the first house on the right hides the site where the Co-operative shop and the post office were. The shop has closed, and the post office is now run from a private house.

Its 17th-century Town House, on the left, was once a sort of part-time guildhall.

Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

Other 18th-century buildings were the Town House (1735) and the Customs House (1730).

Slightly to the left is Brownston House, one of only two Grade I listed buildings in town. It was originally built in 1700, but was rebuilt later in 1720.

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

This is a tall brick tower mill with a large extension grafted onto it to house a steam-driven mill. It had eight sails, as we can see from the eight-armed cross on the windshaft.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Hammet Street, with its brick terrace houses, was laid out in 1788 off North Street, focusing on the magnificent late 15th-century tower of St Mary's church.

It is now a private house. Scalby Stores beyond remains, and next door is Holt House.

Between the houses in the distance was the site of the Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St Augustine of Canterbury in 1926; it was never completed, and the remains were demolished

Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks produced on the site, the house was the county's first true country house.