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Much of the abbey stone was used to build the cottages - so from then the village could rightly be called Rosedale Abbey.

William Bramwell, born in a thatched cottage, heard the preaching of Christopher Hopper (who was known as 'son of thunder') and determined to establish Methodism in rural Fylde.

He also built a village school, the parish church, the vicarage and the row of terraced cottages in Church Street.

Typical of many older cottages in central Bedfordshire, the mixture of timber cladding, wattle and daub, tile and thatch gives The Barn a picture postcard look to be envied.

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

Very few houses were in existence excepting the old thatched cottages facing the Chipstead Valley Road.

There were cottages in Bulls Cross Lane (now Bulls Cross), and there were two small settlements in Whitewebbs Lane-Romey Street (at the Bulls Cross End) and Whitewebbs proper (near the King and

The cottages are now shops, but the timber-framed gabled range adjacent remains in residential use.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

The author's grandmother was a Sunday School teacher at the mission house in the 1930s, 40s and 50s; she lived in one of the cottages in the village, and here the author's mother was born and brought

Marlowes itself was gradually developed with several fine villas and shops appearing amongst speculative building and shabby cottages.

before its demolition in the 1930s, but in 2005 its hemispherical two-part door can still be seen in good condition, not a mile away from its original position, gracing the front of an old cottage

Their old, moated manor house became a farm; a few cottages and a blacksmith's shop remained around the junction of Horton Lane and Long Grove Road with a more substantial building at West Park farmhouse

Littleham retains its village feel, though only a few ancient cottages have survived to cluster around the even older church.

Until the railway came in 1842 it was an isolated rural community, best known for its fustian and for its cottage industry making silk buttons for the Macclesfield silk industry.

Work started at the beginning of 2005 and the first phase will include remodelling the old Wharfinger's Cottage on the canal basin into a canalside restaurant.

The eastern side of the Broadway was totally transformed: in the early 1930s Arnolds Cottage, a double- fronted late Victorian villa, was demolished, to be replaced by a single-storey terrace

Many of the charm- ing cottages we admire today, and which the Frith photographer captured so well, would have been rural slums a century or more ago, for the lot of the Dorset farmworker could