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By 1960 more than 30 years had passed since the house had been given a Jacobean-style facelift. The bastard son of Richard III is buried at the ancient village church.

They have acquired plastic shopfronts at ground level, and now house a tile shop, a dental practice and an Indian restaurant. The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

Now 'The Inn at Whitewell', the place has a reputation for serving good food and was built towards the end of the 14th century as a manor house by Walter Urswyck, a Keeper in the Royal Forest.

Behind the two buses stands the County Sessions House, its splendid multi-columned tower rising over 170 feet into the air.

This pretty village has a number of attractive houses. This picture shows the varied building materials used in Norfolk: flint, clay-lump and the famous Norfolk Red brick.

The very narrow Red Lion Street in Cropredy (pronounced Cropreedy) is named after the Red Lion Inn, seen half way along the row of houses on the right.

Although not the post office at the time of this photograph, the post box outside must have been an omen of things to come, because today the building houses the Drayton Post Office and Stores.

A well-finished thatched cottage is accompanied by other slate roofed houses.

The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860. Over the years it has lost one chimneystack.

The first people to live here built their houses from mud (the area later became an important centre for brick production), so that Lye came to be known as the 'Mud City'.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.

Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico. All the buildings beyond it have been demolished and replaced with modern development.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the King to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

Petworth House was re-built at the end of the 17th century; it incorporated a 13th-century chapel and undercroft that was already on the site.

Amberley Castle, which lies on higher ground above the River Arun's flood plain, is in fact a fortified manor house constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries by the Bishops of Chichester as part

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.

Unlike many of Bath's terraces, the designs of individual houses are not uniform.

Beyond the Tavern, the Half Moon Pub had been a beer house for at least fifty years. It is now closed.

Here on the left is the estate office of the Manor House, further up the lane.

The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.

The 16th-century house with Victorian windows and a rustic timber porch (left) was where the agent to the Duke of Hamilton lived.

The shop is an old property, and so is the long barn (left) under the trees, but some newer houses have appeared. This is limestone country, and there are underground streams and caves hereabouts.

The view is southwards to the Cobb warehouses and Cobb hamlet (left), beyond Westfield (centre) and a terrace of early 19th- century town houses.