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It is houses like this that make Burton so attractive.

At about this time, Rutland villages began to acquire small housing estates, usually on the edges. At first they were council houses, and later private developers came in.

This peaceful unmetalled street is now the busy A329; the B4009 Newbury road emerges between the Bull at Streatley public house on the left and the Georgian Elm House just beyond.

Built in 1851 by the then owner of Hartwell House, Dr John Lee, a noted amateur Egyptologist and archaeologist, this building with Egyptian hieroglyphs has now been beautifully restored.

This view east of the 1897 church shows the cottages and the post office, now closed; the telephone box has been removed and the post office converted to a house, called unsurprisingly The

Bear Lodge, now a private house, is one of two lodge houses which led to Cave Castle - a folly built in the 19th century. It is now a hotel and country club.

With the colliery came rows of miners' housing, such as those in Stephenson Street, Bessemer Street, Rennie Street, Davy Street, and Newton Street.

It was in this house on the left of the photograph that Jane Austen wrote 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma' and 'Persuasion'.

It was in this house on the left of the photograph that Jane Austen wrote 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma' and 'Persuasion'.

A sign of the growing commercialisation of the street can be seen in the Red House`s transformation to the District Bank, and the private house beyond has become a high class decorator.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

Woodstock House is a country house hotel nestling in the Downs below the heights of Charlton Forest.We are near Goodwood racecourse, hence the racing scene on the hotel restaurant signboard.

The Tudor House has most recently seen service as a public house. In the heyday of Taunton market there were some twenty inns in this area of the town.

Many of the delightful houses in this photograph of the north side of St Paul's Street originated in the 13th century, but their fronts were rebuilt later.

In this view the sandstone and brick- dressed mill house is seen across the header pond that stored the water needed to power the waterwheel.

In 2004 the Friends of Turner's House group was set up to support the owner of the house, Professor Harold Livermore, in his wish to leave the house to the nation.

Hill House, on the left, was built for the Reverend Arthur Field in 1899. In 1978 the grounds were used for building and the development known as Hill House Close was born.

Further east, the thatched shop on the left is nowadays a private house, The Old House. Beyond is another thatched cottage, The White House.

In the late 18th century, owners often had to attract workers to what were then quite remote parts of the countryside, and decent housing was one way to do it.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

Around the charming green we can see the old school (centre), later a billiard hall, now restored as a private house. Behind are High Hall and the Temperance Hall (1910).

The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.