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Then came houses and shops to create today's village on either side of the A322. Two of its close neighbouring communities have the unusual names of Penny Pot and Donkey Town.

The houses nearest us were once commercial premises—a hardware store and a tailor's. To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair.

All of the houses still stand. The Old Quay Inn, to the right, is still trading, and so are the majority of the shops along the front.

The fine house in the background survives unspoilt today, and is also used as solicitors' offices.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

These are the parapets of the lower bailey looking towards Marten`s Tower, which gets its name from the prisoner it housed in the 17th century.

The brick and white weatherboarded smock mill still stands in Mill Lane on the banks of the River Tillingham, though it is now converted for use as a guest house.

A mile or so to the north of the village is a house where Edward Elgar spent his summers between 1917 and 1921.

The nearby Grantchester Tea Rooms houses an excellent collection of photographs and exhibits about the poet and his contemporaries.

On the left is the end of a long and attractive terrace of Victorian brick houses, which still survives.

To the memorial's right is the half-timbered group of buildings housing the New Bridge Cafe and Marsh's Commercial College.

It was decided to house them somewhere so that they could be close to the Minster, but out of the way of trouble.

To the left of the street is a gate, erected in 1766, which leads to Holy Trinity Church.The houses here, on what is called Our Lady's Row, are amongst the oldest in England - they are early 14th-century.To

In St Helen's Square, what had been a Guildhall Chapel and then a public house was demolished to make way for the building of a residence for the Lord Mayor.The result was this charming abode.

Byfleet Village Hall also now houses Byfleet Parish Council offices, and is currently under repair (October 2001).

The lifeboat house in the distance (centre) was built in 1899 to replace an earlier station. It was closed in 1934, but it had a brief reprieve during the Second World War.

By this date the open spaces have been infilled with housing, and the Perranporth Hotel can be recognised on the far side of the pond immediately behind the right-hand tree.

Tucked behind the White House, New Street has always been a residential quarter. It already had its name in 1419.

There are now houses and the Duporth Holiday Village along the slopes behind.

The road on the left curves past the houses of Nansladron, where the fields in the valley floor are now caravan and camping parks.

The houses in this scene are typical of Stoneleigh, which retains a pleasant mixture of brick, timber and local red sandstone.

After the construction of the bridges over the Straits and the opening of the railway, Bangor grew from a 19th-century town of only 93 houses into a thriving holiday resort.

Broadcasting House, the home of BBC Radio, was opened in 1932 with 22 studios.

Moored at the bank is their two-masted training brig, and beyond are the river-front houses of Lower Caversham.