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Despite bordering Heathrow Airport with all its urbanisation, its tiny village green and some quaint cottages survive.

The trees on the right have gone, as have some of the terraced cottages, replaced by new housing and flats.

The ferryman's cottage remains, but is now inaccessible and very private, with the river path blocked by a gate to its east.

These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open sea.

Opposite is a good Georgian brick house with smaller cottages to its left.

Only the ordinary workers lived in nearby dilapidated cottages.

A number of attractive old cottages were demolished when the dual carriageway was created. Penn was formerly known as Upper Penn to distinguish it from nearby Lower Penn.

Surely everyone's dream of a Peak District cottage, this beautiful little building is situated between Monsal and Cressbrook Dales in the valley of the River Wye.

Before agriculture became mechanised, large numbers of people were employed on the land; in Gloucestershire many of them lived in tied farm cottages such as these.

The cottages on the right were once a farmhouse - it was divided at the time of the enclosures. Many of the windows have early 19th-century leaded lights.

Where the brook flows between Ivy Cottage Lane and Whiteley Wood Road are the walks along the side of Wire Mill Dam.

These weather-boarded cottages, opposite the church, are very 'Essex'.

One of the county's most attractive villages, Crondall has an assortment of picturesque cottages. It has an interesting history too.

The brickwork in the nearby cottages is an attractive mix of the early, fancy and rustic styles.

Quinney's Tea Cottage (left), with its 18th-century porch and bow window, is now called Primizia, but it remains a quaint and popular restaurant.

The attractive 16th-century Nottyngham Fee Cottage, in the foreground, was destroyed by fire fairly recently. The tall timber-framed and thatched house behind, called 'Laurences', is dated 1548.

The Reverend Lancaster, famous for his firework displays, now occupies the end cottage, and Kimbolton House on the right, the site of the school before it moved to the castle, now houses a playgroup.

The Edwardian guidebook writer Francis Bickley described Kilmington thus: 'its branching streets, its old cottages with their bright gardens, the clear waters of its streamlet, all these go to the making

Woodland was cleared to make way for a number of homes beside the few cottages that were already here. A church, shops and a village club all followed.

Just below the tree on the left-hand side is a white cottage and shop.

The body of the church used to stand separate from the older tower, and the space between was occupied by cottages until a council chamber was built in 1851. This is now the choir vestry.

The owner of this cottage may well have supplemented his income by providing a yoke of oxen to help pull carriages up the steep eastern bank of the Dart.

This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch

Single-storey dormered cottages sit comfortably with the later elegance of the flat-fronted Georgian house further along the street.