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Traditional Norfolk cottages with thatched roofs and flint walls are built on the edge of a large village green: this kind of green-edge or common-edge settlement is characteristic of Norfolk.

Beside it, dwarfed by a huge sycamore tree, are the thatched Three Horseshoes Inn and tiled Way Cottage (left of centre). The modern houses (left) are down towards Merriott Bridge.

If we stand where this picture was taken, we can see that the row of thatched cottages remains.

The 17th- and 18th-century cottages overlook the wide expanse of the Green, which is also surrounded by inns, schools and chapels.

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

The main street runs north lined with estate cottages of around 1900, which seem to have been built on the village green.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

The thatched cottage has a very long garden plot, typical of this village.

Rose-clad cottages line the road in Burnsall, lying in the heart of Wharfedale where the drystone walls spread like a net over the fells, as we can just see in the background.

Willow Cottage is still trading, although the proprietor is no longer P A Jones.

The old brick barn still stands, but these lovely cottages have been replaced by two red-brick modern houses.

Many of the people who worked in the mills or mines lived in dilapidated cottages hidden behind the imposing three-storey buildings on the main street.

The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.

Many of the fishermen's cottages looking towards the harbour were built in three storeys, the ground floor being used for storing and salting their catches of fish.

Here we look south along Church Road to the village shop, nestling behind the 17th-century Cobblers Cottage.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Hangman's Cottage, seen here on the left, was the home of the town's resident executioner in the 19th century.

The pale-coloured cottages, where a man is standing in a doorway (centre right), were pulled down to make way for the Foresters' Hall, the home of the Electric Picture Theatre and other events.

A brand new terrace of shops on the left replace some cottages, and soon after 1890 the Greyhound and Burgis' stores were rebuilt more grandly.

Further along the bridge we look into the backwater with the lock island on the left and the old lock-keeper's cottage beyond the tree.

She lived in one of the two-storey terraced cottages on the right of the picture.

Daniel Defoe lived in a cottage that was once part of this fine old inn. It is said that he wrote 'Robinson?Crusoe' in a back-room above the wash-house.

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

They were responsible for building several of the weatherboarded cottages on the green - or the Square, as it is called.