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This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Shortly after its completion, Lexden House on the right was occupied by Rees's builder Mr Smith, and today it retains many of its original architectural features and details.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

Today just the house overlooking the river remains, and it is difficult even to imagine that there was once a wharf and steps at the other side.

This picture looks towards the castellated Victorian pile of Kingsgate Castle, with the white houses of Kingsgate Bay Road on the right.The largest of these is Holland House, built for Lord Holland

As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

The ruins are now part of a private house. Also in the village near the waterfall is Holy Trinity church, restored in 1878. A 17th-century manor house completes the idyllic

Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed. The houses on the left, built 1911-18, were to be the start of The Netherlands.

Originally it stood in the grounds of nearby Petersfield House, and was given to the town when the house was destroyed in the 18th century.

Here is the three-storey flat-fronted brick house of the later 18th century, small bungalow shops added to two-storey houses of various dates, and to the left the utility weather-boarding above the barber's

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

For a very built-up area, Dudley has always had a number of green, open spaces, including the Civic Gardens, situated between Priory Road and The Broadway, opposite the Council House.

Bossington, at the foot of Bossington Hill and on a loop road from the A39, merges with the hamlet of Lynch; it is a pretty village, with whitewashed sandstone rubble houses.

Porritt houses had the reputation of being fine residential properties: Mr Porritt spent a quarter of a million pounds using the best materials, including stone from his quarries in East Lancashire.

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

The house to the left, built c1500, had a single-storey shop extension added c1800. The house to the right has been rebuilt with dormer windows.

Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three- storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the secondary layer of houses, including those of the

Tattershall has lost its railway, but it still has its castle, and Tom Thumb's house is still on top of a house on the left of the market place.

His home, The White House (diagonally opposite) is a Grade II* listed building built in 1812 for a local banker. It is a fine and important example of an elegant town house.

Chieveley boasts many fine period houses and cottages; here and there are new estates too.