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This range of 18th- and 19th-century cottages, some thatched, look across to the parish church, whose churchyard wall can be seen on the left. The village hardware shop is now the Alfresco Restaurant.

Luccombe remains a quiet backwater with traditional thatched and tiled cottages and walks over the surrounding Holnicote Estate.

This fine brick-built village is one of north Dorset's loveliest, its cottage gardens a delight all year round. Even with modern day traffic it seems a place lost in time.

Despite post Second World War development, several thatched cottages have survived to the present day.

Chalfont Cottage still had its thatch, but not for much longer after 1955.

The Cottage, glimpsed behind the tree, stands beside Lower Walditch Road.

The building on the left is the appropriately named Westend Cottage which was built in the 17th century.

The open green and the large pond beyond the trees are surrounded by houses and cottages. The steps up to the village pump were built so that water churns could be filled from a cart.

These low, half-timbered and thatched cottages at Repton probably date from Tudor times; they give an indication of the antiquity of this sleepy township, which lies eight miles to the south-west of Derby

The typical white-weatherboarded and tile-roofed cottages of the region characterise this ridge-top hamlet north- east of Wadhurst.

This tumble-down cottage had probably changed little since those stirring times.

The majority of Sydling's fine houses and thatched cottages have survived into modern times, making this one of Dorset's most interesting villages for the student of local architecture.

Despite the throng of tourists on summer afternoons, Cockington retains its old-world charm with its picturesque thatched cottages, bee-haunted gardens, lovely old church and modest stately home.

Set below Pen y Corddyn Mawr, a Romano-British hill fort, these houses and cottages are a more recent addition to the ancient landscape of the North Wales coast.

The houses in this view are (starting with the closest): Gate Cottage, Fernley, Hill View and the thatched Park Farmhouse. The George Inn is further along on the left.

Unfortunately, the cottage was demolished in 1960. The pond is on the right, hidden by the trees.

A number of interesting half-timbered and tile- hung cottages can be found in this village, which lies just to the south of the M25.

The setting of Cadgwith is superb, with its thatched fishermen's cottages looking straight down to the wide waters of the English Channel not far from the Lizard Point.

New housing has been built in the village, but this part, South End Cottages on Back Street, is just as it was in 1955.

These charming cottages still stand, altered but recognisable and now holiday homes.

Cottages change names from time to time but the scene remains much the same.

Children sit astride the Beer Brook outside the vast, sprawling Shepherd's Cottage.

Thatched cottages abound in this view; at this time, Trumpington was a village separate from Cambridge.

Once again we see a typical weatherboarded Essex cottage. Further along the row is an attractive thatched house. Horses outside the post office give a rural air to this scene.