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It remains a village of beautiful cottages on the high road between Exeter and Dorchester.

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 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 village has many attractive ironstone cottages – note the ones on the right. The very popular village pub and restaurant, the Welby Arms, is just beyond the road junction.

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

Refreshment can be sought at Captain Cook's Cottage, a café serving luncheons and teas.

Many cottagers on the Lizard opened their doors to visitors and sold artefacts made of the local polished serpentine, including necklaces and model lighthouses.

Warehouses and cottages line the quay, many of them Georgian and early 19th-century with many picturesque bow windows to take advantage of the river views.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

Red-brick workers' cottages face timber and render on the opposite side of the road, speaking of softer parts of the country.

The flint Post Office Stores and cottages have changed very little; the brickwork is still partly painted. To the left is an entrance to Montana, a Roman Catholic residential home.

The cottages were pulled down in 1935: the workmen apparently received a bonus for clearing the rubble in time for an important wedding.

The white plastered cottages clustered around the tiny village green and its war memorial date from the 17th century onwards.

Visitors are still shown the cottage that Thomas Hardy elected to use as the home of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A number of new houses have been built here since Hardy's time.

Some people are fortunate enough to live away from the towns and in the heart of the New Forest, their old cottages looking as much a part of nature as the trees and furze.

Many of the cottages inside the Forest boundary are of considerable antiquity, being either renovations or replacements of buildings that have stood on the same sites for centuries; it is hard to imagine

There is a magnificent prospect of the church, which looks over the eight brick gables of the cottages. The bridge is built of ragstone and dates from the 14th century.

The meeting of the rivers with their tiny bridges adds to the charm of the village and its thatched cottages. In the foreground are Closewool sheep, typical of Exmoor.

The village has many attractive ironstone cottages – note the ones on the right. The very popular village pub and restaurant, the Welby Arms, is just beyond the road junction.

Its long street winds between brick, tile- and timber-clad cottages with their pleasing confusion of rooflines. Note the safe walkways above the road.

In 1808 a group of cottages stood on the western side of the road facing Dole Green, but only one early 19th-century building had survived by the 1990s.

It remains one of the leafier suburbs, though in 1936 the city council destroyed much of its appeal by demolishing the lovely old cottages which clustered round the green.

Some picturesque cottages were destroyed to widen these roads and create the roundabout, which now dominates the view. On the far side of the roundabout is Lickey Road, the main route from Birmingham.

We are high on the limestone White Peak plateau with this photograph of farm buildings and cottages in the hamlet of Small Dale, north of Peak Dale, to the north east of Buxton.