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Many houses have their front doors opening directly onto alleyways and paths, all apparently higgledy-piggledy, saying much about the layout and texture of medieval village life, always under the shadow

This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

The house was built a decade later in the Tudor style, a cumbersome confection of stone and red brick.

In this, the most interesting of all the houses in York, a young apprentice plumber stated that while he was working in the cellar, he heard a trumpet playing; then he saw an army of Roman soldiers marching

Back in Victorian times it was surrounded by a degenerate Leeds, including drinking-houses and prostitution.

Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.

Causeway Cottages, once a late medieval Wealden hall house, are in the background.

Olton Boulevard East is a long, wide road of mostly municipal housing, linking Warwick Road with Shaftmoor Lane.

Knott-End was once a fishermen's village with a small white customs house, and brave attempts were made to turn it into a resort renamed St Bernard's-on-Sea with an improved promenade and a high-walled

At the end is the School House, occupied by Richard Cobb. The school was built in 1844 and closed in 1984.

The drive now gives access to areas of housing.

Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.

The houses on Pennine View are from a different era to the ones we saw in D210004, and catering for more modern workers.

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

This picture clearly shows how the shop fronts were added on to the fronts of the houses, when the town grew in size to warrant more shops to cater for the needs of a larger population.

Jack O' Lantern's trendy espresso coffee house (right) is now a private garage. Times change.

Beyond is High Bank, a medieval hall house.

The half-timbered house beyond used to be the village pub, the Eagle and Child, before the Muslim third Lord Stanley closed it in the early 1870s.

This is the third lifeboat house, built with a deepwater slipway in 1914.

The area is rather romantically referred to as smugglers' country; it is said to have been a kind of halfway house between the Sussex coast and London, where contraband could be safely hidden

The projecting storeys of Tremayne House partly obscure the church tower on the left.

The tall engine house with a square stack contained a beam engine for pumping clay from the pit to the thickening pools on the right.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.There have been a few changes here since the