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The older houses are surrounded by mature trees, but later infilling has led to modern houses and bungalows with hedges of the dreaded leylandii.

He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores. Note the cottage's tall chimney, creating the draught necessary to produce a good fire.

The church is unchanged 60 years after photograph 40729 was taken, although a hedge has been planted and the pavements made up.

The hedges, plantings, paths and the thatched pavilions have strikingly civilised what was a windswept bare grass area. Beyond are the late Victorian buildings of St Bede's Preparatory School.

The foreground of this view is now entirely obscured by trees and hedging. The railway line is no longer visible.

The chestnut palings are now a smart well-trimmed beech hedge.

A windmill used to stand across the road, behind the hedge.

The stony ground hereabouts led to the construction of stone walls as well as the usual Dorset hedges. In recent times the village gave a name to the much-loved Dorset folk-singing group the Yetties.

To make room for the 'race track', the hedges and trees on the left have all gone.

To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.

The hedge against the road has now grown up, almost hiding the concrete footpath from view.

In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.

The fence is more substantial now, as it is a tall green hedge. The signpost with all its information (centre) has also gone.

The hill in the background with a hedge on its crest remains an attractive focal point from this 1930s development.

In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

The trees and hedge on the right have since been removed and a wide grass verge created.

On the left of the picture there are signs of hedge cutting.

This view looks south towards All Saints' Church and shows how the tower and spire originally closed the vista well, although nowadays the church is hidden by high hedges and a fine cedar.

The garden plots of the houses are prominent, sheltered by hedges and mostly on the south-facing slope on the right.

The older houses are surrounded by mature trees, but later infilling has led to modern houses and bungalows with hedges of the dreaded leylandii.

This view of Cottesmore is typical of Rutland's visual feast of limestone and ironstone villages, set in a rolling, spired landscape of hedges and walls which the hunt can, in the main, take in its stride

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

The hedge at the right belongs to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, a somewhat unattractive Neo-Norman church of 1843.