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The Black Lion public house on the right was originally on the opposite side of the road. In 1793, the site that now carries the name was known as the Sow and Pigs.

This is one of three monuments erected on the Sykes estate; it is directly opposite Sledmere House, and was erected in 1919.

The village was built to house the coalminers of nearby Costhorpe Colliery, now closed.

The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood. When the English Civil War began in 1642, Parliamentary troops were garrisoned in Coleford.

Among the old buildings, close to the new centre, is Barn House, an early barn conversion of little merit, Field End Farm House, Field End Lodge and Retreat Cottage, all timber-framed.

They had between them several houses, and in the garden of each they planted a mulberry tree - school children from the village dance around the one at Shrubbery House.

Here we see Hutton Hall from the north, showing the main entrance and driveway, the view that house party guests would first see upon arriving by carriage, having been brought up from the Pease's

There are connections with the Sussex iron industry, for an ironmaster once lived here.The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister.

In the distance is the ornamental gable of the village school built in 1876, now a house called, unsurprisingly, The Old School House.

Most of the houses are 19th-century, including the shop (dated 1881) on the corner of Ray Lane beyond the now relocated war memorial cross. It is now a private house called The Old Post Office.

This unspoiled row of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses facing onto the church was built and owned mainly by small farmers and tradesmen, who formed the backbone of the rural affluent society

Beside the waters of the Great Stour, this great house in its pleasant parkland marks the original birthplace in 1380 of Cardinal Kempe, the ecclesiastical statesman.

In 1967 the building was converted to house the Pembrokeshire County Museum and Records Office. The latter is still housed there today.

The writer and social historian Thomas Carlyle was born in this house in 1795. It had been built by Carlyle's father and uncle just four years before—they were both stonemasons in the village.

On the right is the old mill house, now converted into flats. Left centre, just beyond the van, is a glimpse of the Prince of Wales public house.

The recreation ground was created from a part of the extensive grounds of what was originally a private house called St Clair.

A mile or so north of Ampthill, we divert right to visit the ruins of Houghton House.

This made Hicks a powerful landowner in the area, and to proclaim the fact he built himself an impressive seat named Campden House.

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors. The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

The tall house on the right was the Manse - it became a shop in the 1930s. The white building behind the RAC sign (right) was at one time the Master Tanner's House.

As well as the usual statutory facilities, such as tennis courts and a football ground, there is an attractive series of lakes and ponds, as well as Broomfield House with its stableyard, an early 18th-century

The short battlemented tower adorns an attractive group of 18th- and 19th-century houses at the south-eastern end of the village.

East Park was developed after 1880 with terraces of artisan housing, mostly built by James Longley and Sons who moved here from Turners Hill.