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Here we see one of Formby's older properties, a fine example of the type of cottage that was once common to this part of the coast.

In the distance is the Five Arrows Hotel; the five arrows symbolise the five Rothschild brothers - the badge is seen on houses and cottages all over central Buckinghamshire.

The old market booths, which backed on to the churchyard, were later converted into cottages and demolished in the 1940s.

Here we see a row of classic stone-built thatched cottages, in the characteristic vernacular style.

There was once an old village of Overstone near to the grandiose main mansion, but this was moved in 1821 and estate cottages built along the boundary.

A lace maker works at a floral sprig of Honiton lace outside her cottage door at Beer in South Devon.

Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

Quarrymen and their families must have occupied a high proportion of the cottages, working to fulfil the 18th- and 19th-century demand for slate both as a roofing material, and for graveyard

She lived virtually all her life in a nearby cottage, and was a poet in her own right. There are several memorials in the chancel, one of which is to Matthew Blakiston.

one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and sandstone cottages

Along this stretch was a fishermen's community of whitewashed and thatched cottages. The Oak Eggar moth, which fed on a grove of poplars at Fairhaven, was heading for extinction even then.

We can just see the old cottage of photograph 77066 again in its new location, on the left and partially concealed by the leafy tree.

In this picture, at the end of the road we see Blacksmith's Cottage and stables behind.

Stone-built cottages lend charm to Caton, which is proud of its ancient oak and fish stones. In the 1950s, Hornby Road featured Henty's confectioners and the post and telegraph office (left).

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

Cromwell Cottage on the right gets its name as Cromwell's men were stationed there when he was in the area in 1657.

Red-tiled cottages are squeezed into narrow passages that rise dramatically from seashore to cliff top.

The creeper-covered wall between the iron fence and the cottage gable is in fact the dam wall for the mill. Now a silted up boggy patch, the mill pond can still be made out.

This view looks north to the thatched cottages, Nos 456 and 458.

A range of three 16th-century thatched cottages in banded flint and Hamstone is down to the right.

On the left corner is John's Cottage, a late 16th-century stone house with a surviving moulded timber mullioned window facing the photographer.

Taken from the upper storey of a cottage in Church Street, this view of the north side of the church looks beguilingly medieval.

Looking west uphill along the High Street, the jettied timber-framed cottages span an alley to the church and its lychgate.