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Litton Cheney has a charming collection of Stuart and Georgian cottages strung out along its winding streets.

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Litton Cheney has a charming collection of Stuart and Georgian cottages strung out along its winding streets.

The long line of cottages in Winkle Street overlooks a delightful babbling brook.

The long line of cottages in Winkle Street overlooks a delightful babbling brook.

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.

This railway bridge over Brook Street was taken down a year after the last train to Skipton left Ilkley on 20 March 1965.

This view from the bridge over the Bradwell Brook looks north up the main village street, with the Bridge House Café and Pearce's ice cream shop on the right - Bradwell is famous for its home-made ice

This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.

Taken almost from the bottom of High Street, many of these buildings are unchanged a century later, even if their uses have.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.

Buses still use the Broadway and Northbrook Street but today traffic cannot use the section of the latter thoroughfare much beyond Wheelers Garage during the daytime.

The mature cyclist is about to free-wheel into the High Street off to the right.

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

On the right by the pillar box is a circulating library; across the street is the Lantern Bakery, next door to H Brooks, grocer and Italian warehouseman.

Beside Sabden Brook stands the church of St Nicholas, built in 1846.

This reflects its prominent position on the crown of a hill and at the junction of Upper High Street and High Street.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

The High Street was laid out in 1826 as New Road, but development off the hill was slow.

This pastoral scene posed by the photographer is charming; it shows the steep village street leading to the cottages grouped around the stocks, church and inn.

We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.

Buffer stops were added to the Ilkley station on 3rd January 1966 and the eighty year old bridge over Brook Street was demolished, with work starting at 5am on Sunday 10th July 1966.