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The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

The original cottage was 'gentrified' during the early 19th century and later, the local doctor added extensions, which he used as his waiting room and surgery.

The village derives its name from the fact that it was the location of Garstang's parish church, St Helen's, which lies beyond the cottages at the far end of the street.

Heysham old village is an attractive place, with an assortment of stone cottages lining the streets.

Two cottages to the right were rebuilt in the 1960s and incorporated into the hotel, retaining the chimneystack.

Like its near neighbour Dunsfold, this cluster of weather-tiled cottages close to the Surrey-Sussex border derives part of its name from the term for a cattle enclosure.

Marine Parade (left centre) stretches beside the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottage (centre) to Cobb Gate. Gun Cliff and Church Cliffs complete the town's seascape.

Cottages in the deep gully in Hill Bottom housed a Victorian Coastguard Station, where Thomas Austin was the chief boatman in 1889, with six men as his crew.

Outside the near cottage, note the two milk churns awaiting collection by a dairy lorry.

The four pointed gables were built in 1899 on the site of two small cottages and a plastered building that seemed to be the remainder of an ancient chapel.

This row of cottages started life as one 15th-century house of the hall-and-wings type. It is now all one house again. St Michael`s Church is mainly early 14th- century.

Nowadays the green is edged with lime trees; attractive Georgian and later cottages surround it, and the Baptist Chapel of 1823 faces its north side.

The main road to Bridport snakes up the hill above Park Farm and Clammers Field, towards Turnpike Cottage and Miles Cross (left).

These cottages are typical of this lovely Lakeland village, which clusters around its 16th-century church.

From here the canal maintains a level for over twenty miles until it reaches Tyrley, where a flight of five locks alter the level by 33 ft.At Tyrley the lock keeper's single storey cottage is situated

Today, Feckenham is only a village, but a large, prosperous one with fine houses and charming cottages, many of them formerly inhabited by needle makers who worked at home.

This later photograph shows Manor Farm after the plaster had been removed from the timber frame, and also those 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages more closely.

In 1965 one of the two-bedroom cottages beside the river sold for £2,350; it would now cost £235,000.

The white building in the middle ground is Crossing Cottage; beyond are the gentle slopes of the burrows and Tenby golf course, the oldest links course in Wales, established in 1888.

Pretty cottages with iron latticed windows compliment thatches old and new all along the main street.

The confectionery shop and the chemist's (right) are now private cottages. Askrigg was the village where the James Herriot's TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' was set.

This cottage high up on the moors contained two stone plunge baths, one of which is still on display today. The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

The tea room at Jessamine Cottage at Eype, run by Mrs Edith Warren, had a rustic look, accentuated by moss on the thatched roof and the windows open for air in a hot summer.

Here we see the 19th-century cottages of the village; the older part is well inland, and the newer development stretches from the old centre towards the sea.