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This attractive Tudor building is known as The Bell House because in 1525 the then owner decreed that upon his decease the money raised from renting out the building should be used to pay for the ringing

Beyond, the elegant town houses that once had rear gardens down to the river can be picked out through the trees.

The steps veer elegantly to the right to the chapter house, and extend ahead over the 15th-century chain gate.

The railway line disappeared in the 1960s, and today the station is a private house.

Now one of the country's finest tourist attractions, the house and estate was established in the 18th century and contains a huge lake and spectacular gardens.

The Red Lion public house is on the right, while the factory chimney in the background is a reminder of the town's industrial base.

The tea house, which still functions today as a delightful cafe-restaurant, stands at the near end of the beach. There are no surviving traces of the once major industry of seine net fishing.

The cottage in the centre was Ayers Old-Fashioned Eating House, with plenty of seating outside for visitors.

Rothesay developed as a holiday and tourist destination during the 1840s, attracting the opening of hotels, lodging houses, cafes and restaurants.

These 18th-century cottages were built to house farm workers and fishermen when the latter moved up from the shore.

Whatstandwell gets its strange name from Walter Stonewell, a 14th- century resident whose house was next to the former ford which crossed the river here.

This view looks across to the Trowbridge Road - its strong line of Victorian and Edwardian houses is evident going into the distance.

Sandbanks gives an impression of how wild and lonely the nearby site of Bournemouth must have been before Lewis Tregonwell built his house there in 1810.

Cow Lane has changed in recent years, with infill building visible to the left of the house in the centre of this picture.

As the housing estate at Monkton grew up, the owners of Monkton Park, the District Council, began to develop the area for recreational purposes.

Here, in a rather posed photograph, a well-dressed family stand outside a pleasant house in Beer with lace being worked in the foreground.

Of all High Street's timber-framed houses this one is the grandest. It was built in 1599 for Edward Payne, an ironworker, though by 1923 its resident was Robin Reid.

There are many fine houses in the generously laid out leafy suburban roads of the New Town.

The original Tudor town plan was based on a series of both parallel and converging streets, but erosion during the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in many houses being lost to the sea.

The walls and towers surrounding the county gaol, court house and Clifford's Tower were not medieval. They were in fact designed by Sydney Smith, Rector of Foston, and built in the 1820s.

A house on the left is being decorated or renovated by men on ladders, while a man with a euphonium and other players serenade them below.

All the taller houses on the right were replaced by what is now Debenhams depart- ment store.

Opposite the parish church are to be found a row of late Victorian houses known as Britannia Terrace, characterised by their bay windows and long front gardens.

The village of Kettleness succumbed to disaster on 17 December 1829 when the cliff broke away and the houses and alum works fell into the sea.