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The clock in front of the garage at the end on Gaol Square replaced a fountain built to commemorate Thomas Sidney, born in the end house on the right.

At one time, elegant Victorian terraced houses, which were built between l835 and l857, graced the Parade. Apart from the last two terraced houses, these were demolished in the 1930s.

This is a five-storey L-plan tower-house built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in August 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar.

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 five-storey, L-plan tower-house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in August 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar.

The gardens and the houses on the left have been replaced by a routine 1960s block, Kingsbury House.

The village is well-known for the National Trust-owned Clergy House, which was in fact the very first building the Trust acquired: it bought the house in 1896 for the princely sum of £10.

Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.

On the south side of the street are several half-timbered houses of notable quality, with Shakespeare House and its prominent gable, and the Chequers Inn, both very evident.

Above the trees is the water tower, disguised as the House in the Clouds. The 65-acre Meare was the first stage of the development. The houses on the left were built between 1911 and 1918.

On the right, we have W J Roberts, a shoe repairer, and next to him is Philpott's, the house furnisher.

The church is to the east of the house and looks like a personal chapel, as the village is further away to the west beyond the gates.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

The annexe sideways to the road has gone, and the house standing back from the road has been replaced by a bungalow. One of the two houses on the right, Highfield View, now has a porch.

The war memorial stands on a site formerly occupied by a stable, a coach house and two single-storey houses.

The late Victorian Red Lion pub on the left is closed and for sale (January 2004), while the post office on the right is, as in many other villages, closed and now a house, Post Office House.

The house was built as a 15th-century open hall house, but it was altered in the 17th century.

In the foreground, on the corner of Dungates Lane, is this 16th-century timber-framed house, now subdivided; its left gabled crosswing is a house, and the rest is now the Buckland Stores, and all virtually

Further along, also on the left, is Cradle's House, a 14th-century hall house, which has recently been restored, a sad reminder of what the town has lost.

The house is L-shaped, and it is no longer either a post office or a tea room. The telephone box has gone too. The house is now called, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office.

To its right is Trinity House, a good stone house in the style of a William Butterfield rectory, built as the manse by J Woodman, who had designed the church.

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border.

The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men.

The High Street turns north, and it and the town end abruptly at the River Great Ouse, which flows through meadows liable to flooding.