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These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

We can almost feel the peace and tranquillity typified by a road deserted apart from a solitary horse-drawn delivery cart, standing near an attractive row of brick-built thatched cottages.

Picture postcard thatched cottages built of local stone mix pleasantly with Georgian and Victorian villas in this well-kept village.

Until the 1850s there was just an inn and a cottage in the bay, with a limekiln nearby. It became such a popular resort at the end of the 19th century that it became known as the second Brighton.

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

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 Victoria Cottage Hospital was opened in Pettits Lane in 1888 on a plot of land donated by Mr W Mashiter.

The street remains largely unchanged, though the cottage on the right has recently undergone a thorough restoration.

Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right). The offshore rocks are Lucy's Ledge Jetty, Cobb Gate Jetty and Broad Ledge.

The Victoria Cottage Hospital was opened in Pettits Lane in 1888 on a plot of land donated by Mr W Mashiter.

Before the arrival of the LCC Harold Hill housing estate, Noak Hill was an isolated hamlet; however the thatched weather-boarded cottage on the right still remains to this day.

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.

Merrythought Cottage is the protruding building on the left.

A wealth of timbers, tiles, gables, chimney-stacks and a thatched gateway make another attractive High Road house north of Ruffetts Cottages. It is now obscured by trees and hedges.

Many of its cottages were built in the 17th century, and the Royal Oak is older, claiming a date of about 1502. A famous treat, which is still sold today, was Granny's Nettle Beer.

This and other cottages at this secluded spot are now leased out for holidays by the Landmark Trust.

Sad to relate, this restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development

The Old Crown Inn and the adjoining cottages are faced by the Georgian houses on the other side of the green.

Situated within the remains of the Rockingham Forest, Stanion has thatched and stone-tiled cottages looking towards the graceful tower and spire of its 13th-century church.

The thatched cottages beyond have been all but demolished, but the front walls remain as part of a flat roofed house called The Old Workshop.

The lock-keeper's cottage was partly rebuilt in 2000.

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above the stream

The journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in a cottage beneath the castle.