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Quarrymen and their families must have occupied a high proportion of the cottages, working to fulfil the 18th- and 19th-century demand for slate both as a roofing material, and for graveyard

She lived virtually all her life in a nearby cottage, and was a poet in her own right. There are several memorials in the chancel, one of which is to Matthew Blakiston.

one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and sandstone cottages

Along this stretch was a fishermen's community of whitewashed and thatched cottages. The Oak Eggar moth, which fed on a grove of poplars at Fairhaven, was heading for extinction even then.

We can just see the old cottage of photograph 77066 again in its new location, on the left and partially concealed by the leafy tree.

In this picture, at the end of the road we see Blacksmith's Cottage and stables behind.

Stone-built cottages lend charm to Caton, which is proud of its ancient oak and fish stones. In the 1950s, Hornby Road featured Henty's confectioners and the post and telegraph office (left).

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

Cromwell Cottage on the right gets its name as Cromwell's men were stationed there when he was in the area in 1657.

Red-tiled cottages are squeezed into narrow passages that rise dramatically from seashore to cliff top.

The creeper-covered wall between the iron fence and the cottage gable is in fact the dam wall for the mill. Now a silted up boggy patch, the mill pond can still be made out.

This view looks north to the thatched cottages, Nos 456 and 458.

A range of three 16th-century thatched cottages in banded flint and Hamstone is down to the right.

On the left corner is John's Cottage, a late 16th-century stone house with a surviving moulded timber mullioned window facing the photographer.

Taken from the upper storey of a cottage in Church Street, this view of the north side of the church looks beguilingly medieval.

Looking west uphill along the High Street, the jettied timber-framed cottages span an alley to the church and its lychgate.

The inn on the banks of the river was two cottages and a shop in 1840. In 1851 it became an inn owned by the brewer Henry Prior.

The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers. Humphrey's Bakery, High Street, has been dated 1332.

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages. In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.

Mrs Crouch and her daughter are at the door of their cottage. This, too, has gone, and Freman Drive cuts now across the site.

Luss's vernacular cottages were described by James Denholm, in 1804 : 'the houses, in general, appear exceeding uncomfortable.

At the inland end of Shanklin Chine is the old village, a delightful array of thatched cottages, with honeysuckle and roses around the door.