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Behind the chestnut tree in the village square, once known as Waterloo Square, the shops were originally a small row of cottages, which were apparently used as a quartermaster's stores and to billet soldiers

Many hikers have strolled into this pretty village to see its cliffs and cottages.

The long village High Street running down from the ridge overlooking the Weald and the 13th-century church of St Peter is lined with picturesque tile-hung cottages.

Previously, silk production had been very much a cottage industry, but by the middle of the 18th century, mills powered at first by water and then by steam changed everything.

St Paul's Church, behind the cottages, was founded in the 13th century. Rebuilt by the Tudors and again by the Victorians, it contains interesting relics of its history.

The cottage, built in 1824, served as the local post office; like the rest of the small hamlet, it is part of the Stonyhurst estate.

This cottage, probably 16th- or 17th-century, is typical of those found on the eastern side of Dartmoor.

The front offices of the Romford Royal Steam Laundry are situated in quaint cottages on the left.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

A neat public toilet block is on the left, built in a Cotswold cottage style to harmonise with the street scene.

The little cottages between the first two parked cars in this photograph have gone, and the Crown Inn on the right disappeared some years ago.

The first part of Newtown was built as workers` cottages for the employees of the ironworks, and the other section was for workers in the brick works.

At first glance, Church Houses seem to be typical farm labourers` cottages next door to the church, but a closer look at the left- hand group suggests that once this was a single substantial

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile- hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

The oldest cottages in Frodsham are those on The Rock, in other words on the highest land in what was once predominately very marshy terrain.

The one to the left of the pointed gable is called Dick Turpin`s Cottage, though it does not have any documented link with the famous thug.

Now, however, it is a rendered annexe to Lantern Cottage beyond: it is a cinema no more.

Note the traditional checkerboard brickwork on the cottages to the right, which also appear to have been the subject of some infill building since the 18th century.

forge at the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic French restaurant, and with a bus stop immediately outside what was then Highway Cottage

Ahead is the 17th-century timber-framed White Horse and the Victorian South View Cottage. The road to the left leads to the former Independent Chapel of 1750.

It was recorded as 'a cottage and a garden owned by John Marshall of Hitchin and occupied by Sarah Buckle, widow'. Nearby stood the Two Brewers public house.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

The cottage in the foreground shows an unusual method of loft ventilation.

Next to the thatched cottages on the left is the White Hart pub.