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P C Wren, the author of 'Beau Geste', is buried in Holy Trinity's churchyard, and the 18th-century Rose Cottage was the home of the Victorian novelist Dinah Mulock (Mrs Craik) while she wrote

Dinah Mulock lived here in Rose Cottage, and won considerable success with her novel John Halifax, Gentleman when it was published in 1857 under her pseudonym of Mrs Craik.

Three young boys in the distinctive uniform of Christ's Hospital school at Horsham, accompanied by a lady, pass by the 16th- and 17th-century cottages which stood at the beginning of Farnham Road.

Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

The cottages along the bank date from 1877 onwards, with two further pairs added in 1909 in the middle distance gap.

In the distance is Tudor Cottage with its central chimney stack and steeply-pitched tiled roof, an early 16th-century timber-framed house now cased in brick.

In the intervening years since H167010 (opposite page) was taken, the Esso Garage has obviously expanded, although the cottages and shops on the right are little changed.

The view is eastwards from the village green to a range of 18th-century thatched cottages (right).

This rare shot shows the old turnpike cottage (left) at Holme Toll Bar, before the corner was cleared for road widening, looking westwards from Stoborough to East Holme.

The thatched roofs of Ducks Bottom (left), the old post office (centre) and Vine Cottage (right) nestle in the heart of pastoral Eype hamlet in the coastal valley west of Bridport.

Many cottages here are brick, and there are also some malmstone ones. A couple (centre left) stroll through the village; their clothing suggests that it is a warm day.

The Bible tells us that we should build our houses on rock and not sand – and all the oldest cottages in Burton sit perched on outcrops of sandstone.

As a result there are numerous terraces of workers' cottages, all in brick and mainly attached to the west side of the village.

Frith's photographer has focussed on the north side of the street with its interesting variety of stone cottages, while opposite, out of view, are modern 1960s houses which clearly did not grab his attention

Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

At one of these cottages lived an elderly lady, who spent much time seated at her window, who as a four-year-old girl had been present at the Battle of Waterloo with her father, a colour sergeant in

Since this view was taken, the lock has been reconstructed; the lock-keeper’s cottage was rebuilt in 1928 by the Thames Conservancy.

The farmhouse, (out of shot to the left), Walnut Cottage, and some frontage walling also survives.

Dating back to the 18th century, the deed to each of these cottages restricts the householder to replacing the thatched roof only with thatch, and further prescribes the method and colour of redecoration

Quiet Heysham was once most famous for nettle beer and selling teas to trippers from its ancient cottages. The chapel on the headland and the stone coffins remain, but the ambience has changed.

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Beside the Castle Inn are cottages (right) of a similar date with a third - adjoining to the east - being from a century earlier. The view is north-westwards to West Down (top left).

18th-century cottages in Main Street at West Lulworth, looking westwards from the wide triangle of highway and grass beside the Castle Inn.

The cottages on the left have been partially replaced by new large houses.