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There are two large Georgian houses and some nicely thatched cottages. It is still a peaceful village, although there is more traffic.

take a rest on the steps, as the greystone cottages, now part of a Conservation Area, cluster around the greensward in the background.

This photograph of Lulworth village shows how Dorset cottages looked when they were the workaday homes of local labourers and fishermen.

The cottage on the left has been replaced with gardens; the wall on the right was once used as a place where slaughtered pigs were scalded and skinned.

The chimneys of the textile mills fill the valley bottom, alongside the winding railway line and grim terraces of the millworkers' cottages. Above them, the moors watch over, unchanged.

With its old cottages, stepping stones and ancient arched bridge, it possesses a unique, almost hypnotic serenity.

These cottages lie on the road down from the school, one of the first church schools in Somerset. The thatch looks so picturesque today.

Of Queen's Park's 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers' cottage, a bandstand and a

Where the lock-keeper's cottage once stood is now an attractive recreational area with seats and information boards recording the history of the canal.

Delightful dark brown granite cottages hug the narrow choked streets of Mousehole (pronounced Mouzel).

The building on the left, now demolished and replaced by St Thomas's Church Hall, was a cottage for the tannery workers.

Some of the buildings on the tip of Sandbanks are coastguard cottages.

The lock keeper's neat and tidy cottage garden is noteworthy, as is the view across the water meadows to the steeple of St Lawrence's church.

It is heartening to think that this view has changed only in the growth of the background trees over 40 years and the removal of thatch from one of the 18th-century cottages.

With the faded lime wash and rough appearance of the cottages and walls, this scene has an almost Mediterranean air about it.

The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing. In the distance is the Manor House, once home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the famous landscape gardener.

As fishing declined, the fishermen's wives sold teas from their cottages. The shops survive, and the fishing stores and salting sheds to the left are now craft workshops.

The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

The new Old Neptune was a conversion of two cottages; at the time of this photograph it was a local brewer's Tomson & Wotton's house.

The building was perhaps thatched originally, but is now pantiled, with sloping dormer windows like the cottage next to it. On the bench a villager watches the photographer.

Today the pub has been converted into cottages, but the name survives, because they are called Cross Keys Mews.

In the distance is the Green, an industrial area with tanneries and a brewery as well as cottages.

Another view of Reeth, looking down across the gritstone-slabbed roofs of the cottages of the village, which was another important lead mining centre during the 18th and 19th centuries.

As the name of this cottage suggests, Worstead was one of the main centres of the weaving industry, which made Norfolk one of the wealthiest regions of medieval England.