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The Doric pediment above the doorway of the house to the right reminds us of our links with classical Greece.

The church tower continues to dominate this scene, but the village has grown a lot in the last century, with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.

The Mansion House was built by Charles Welford between 1795 and 1808. It passed through several owners before being bought by the Grammar School for £187 in 1887.

Dated 1813, it had ceased work by 1900; it is now converted into to a private house.

In 1747 a valuable cargo of tea was seized by the revenue men and stored in the Custom House at Poole.

The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.

The barn on the left has now been converted into a house.

The houses indicate the line of Parkstone Road.

The library houses many famous manuscripts, including ones by Milton, Macaulay, Thackeray and Tennyson.

Most houses are 17th- and 18th-century, but over thirty medieval undercrofts or cellars survive; they were used for storing Bordeaux wines, the basis of its trade.

The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

The telegraph wires have long gone to be succeeded by other media, and although most of the houses in this view remain, the place is virtually unrecognisable and the traffic scanty: this

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

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.

Many of the wealthy clothiers' houses were built on terraces cut into the hillside.

Below that, however, is the imposing bulk of the Palace and New Opera House which opened in 1889 and featured what was then the largest ballroom in Europe.

Unusually, the church was built before the houses. The Parish of Christ Church stretches down to Baker Street and Alfred Street, where the school and church hall were built.

This is really a church without a village, for only a few scattered houses and farms are nearby.

The museum has changed little today and houses a notable collection of stuffed animals, including the skeletons of two whales washed up on the Irish coast in Victorian times.

Now being gradually subsumed into Aldershot's 21st-century sprawl, Tongham was once an important part of the brewing business in the Blackwater Valley, as the chimney of the oast house at this crossroads

School House on the left looks out over the village green in this charming scene. Terrington Hall, set amongst the trees, is now a preparatory school.