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Wribbenhall has a row of early 18th-century terraced cottages, late 18th- and early 19th-century warehouses, and a number of timber-framed houses, the oldest dating back to the 16th century.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

Many of the thatched cottages on the winding lanes remained the same except for the replacement of their wheat straw roofs by corrugated metal sheets; an instance is the old Reading Room between Carr's

In consequence, several of the ancient cottages opened their doors as tea-rooms and cafes, offering lunches and high teas of home-made cakes and biscuits.

The cottages, little changed, carry the names of former occupants: Crockford, Chidgey, Pope, Syms and Miss Bryant.

Overlooking the water is a row of 16th-century gabled and mullioned cottages, two farmhouses, a Victorian school and a former forge and pub that still shows the sign of the Dragon on the Wheel, a local

Old cottages have stone-framed windows and doorways, and new houses blend in colour with their crushed Ham stone concrete.

One of the few houses was Hawkes Point Cottage, seen here (right) on the nearest headland. The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.

Although described in this 1950s photograph as 'The Mill', this sturdy 18th-century cottage at picturesque Ashford in the Water, near Bakewell, looks more like a farmhouse, with its barn and stables on

This late Victorian view shows one of the cottages surviving next to the newly rebuilt Cock pub selling Salter's Fine Ales and Stout.

Children wait outside the shop, perhaps for a school bus, while a thatcher is working on a cottage roof, his ladder supported half way into the road – a dangerous situation with today's busy traffic.

In the winter, however, the creek is a brooding, atmospheric place, with the massed trees hanging heavily over the dark waters of the River Lerryn and many of the cottages empty.

Although there are many pleasant cottages in the vernacular brick and flint, the modest village street does not reflect Caister's illustrious history.

Only two of the small shops - the nearer of which is Arthur S Fry, family butcher - now survive from the four converted from cottages in the 1890s; the other two were demolished in July 1965

This little cluster of 16th- and 17th-century gabled timbered cottages, along with the pub (not visible in the photograph), was acquired in its entirety by the National Trust in 1939.

These delightful ironstone cottages stand in the lee of the trees; nearby lies Barton Hall, reputed to have been built with stones from a 14th-century castle here.

The Sandygate lane leading to the beach was made possible by removing an old cottage between Cambrian House and St Julian's Terrace.

The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.

This delightful village of whitewashed cottages focused on a stream has changed little; the tall pine tree has gone, but its stone-walled surround remains.

This view looks northwards along Middle Street (otherwise known as Chapel Street) in the centre of the village towards a 17th- century thatched cottage on the corner with Grove Road (centre

Notice the telephone box just beyond – many of the earliest public telephones were set up inside private houses, and there used to be one inside this particular cottage.

The new cottage hospital, pre-dating this photograph by three years, stands at the top of the street.

Singleton was one of the model villages built up and down the country in the 19th century: Squire Miller provided St Anne's Church, picturesque cottages for the workers, and the much photographed little

Brooke Cottage was the place to visit for parents and children alike if they had a sweet tooth, for it was formerly the village sweet shop and store. Next door there was a shoe shop and cobbler's.