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Two of Westgate's leading hotels were the Beach House Hotel on the left, and the large St Mildred's Hotel and Bathing Establishment (centre).

The round house on the north bank of the river was a popular bathing spot.

The town also has a Market House, which like many others, was originally open on the ground floor.

Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.

The cottage now houses a tea room.

Situated near where Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire meet is the pretty village of Lechlade, with its fine array of Georgian houses.

Brookview is the house with Powerstock Primary School behind it (left of centre) and Sunnyside is further up the hill.

Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.

The front of this charming Georgian house, with its bay windows and portico at the front door, is now obscured by the addition of a single-storey annexe which provides a riverside eating area for customers

The district has the first and last house and hotel, so why not a tree? The fact that trees are a rarity in this windswept peninsula makes this more significant. There is a low haystack beyond.

The Borough Hotel is on the right of our picture; this was a Dutton House. Woolworth's is a little further up the street.

This building is now a private house.

Just around the corner from here is the house where the novelist Jane Austen died.

The covered walkway of The Pentice was created when the upper floor of its houses was extended in the 16th century. Until 1279 a Royal Mint of the Norman and Angevin kings stood on the site.

The few houses that have frontage to the river would never have anticipated the growth of residential building that would later take place here.

This is an excellent view showing the protective measures taken to try and prevent the road (and houses!) being washed away by the more ferocious storms.

The now much enlarged thatched house on the right is the only Bridge Inn building standing today; the left-hand one has been demolished.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664. At some time during the 19th century the pub frontage has been modified so that there are continuous windows on two floors.

High Street runs south from the church and is still lined by attractive houses, some timber framed, others in Georgian red brick.

Village houses of different ages front the street. The thatched roof has a patterned blocked ridge. Next door is a small pub. The road leads down to the River Ouse and Buckden Mills.

Now no longer a pub, the Britons Arms on the left, built as a community of religious women in the 15th century, was the only house to survive a great fire in 1507.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

Many Georgian houses throughout the town remain, and its buildings are always worth a second look.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.