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At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

Not seen in this photograph are cottages and houses off to the right that overlook the pond - their gardens front directly onto it.

This view, looking west from the green, has lost its two community facilities: The Bell is now a house, while the shop on the right is now a house called The Old Post Office.

Just above the left-hand end of the bridge in S177036 (page 70) and here in 72297 we can see buildings which in the 1920s housed Cooper & Hall, the engineers.

Moses Glover's map of 1635 shows a building in the vicinity of today's York House, covered in scaffolding and surrounded by a number of smaller structures, some of which line the roads.

Nowadays the old core is surrounded by 20th-century housing, some small and the rest 'Metroland' detached houses in spacious well-treed gardens, between it and Seer Green and Jordans railway station on

At its southern extremity and the junction with Cheam Road was the site of East Cheam Manor and a dozen or so houses.

There is a pleasing lack of uniformity about the facades and rooflines of the buildings in the High Street, some of which are small cottages, and others grand town houses.

The assemblage of 19th-century houses on the left is almost picturesque, looking out over open fields until the arrival of the houses on the right in the 1930s.

Frith's photographer was looking west away from the Council House, with Long Row on the right.

The school (right), now converted into two houses, was built in 1858. The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

The new house, completed in 1869, was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who was also the architect of St Pancras station and the Natural History Museum.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

This was known as Coffee House Number Four before the union bought this building. This block also used to house the Theatre Deluxe next to Jays.

Town houses were built in the early 19th century for wealthy families and, in the late 1800s, 27 public houses existed along the High Street.

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore. The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life.

it has been the centre of the city's business and social life, and is surrounded by many fine buildings.This view shows Blue Boar Row, looking west towards the old Cheese Market and the Market House

In 1794 a very large barracks was built just north of the village; it was used to house militia during the Napoleonic Wars. After the First World War, the barracks were closed and demolished.

The medieval parish church, Ashtead Park house and its landscaped park, now part of the City of London Freemen's School, are south of this main through road, the A24 London to Worthing road.

The building on the right is Aberconwy House, a rare survival of medieval Conwy and one of the oldest buildings in Wales.

A lone block of four houses were the only dwellings on that straight length of road in 1899. By 1905 a spurt of building would fill in the right-hand side all of the way into town.

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

Formerly one of the few eight-sailed windmills in the country, the tower is all that remains of the complex of granaries, bakery and mill house.

The assemblage of 19th-century houses on the left is almost picturesque, looking out over open fields until the arrival of the houses on the right in the 1930s.