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With a half-hipped timbered frame, visible at the gable end, and attic windows plus roadside flowers, early 16th- century Anthorn Cottage continues to give character to Blandford Road in

Here we see the Black Rock, Black Rock Quarry and Black Rock Cottage, and behind is the bridge over the railway.

Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows. On the right, the parked cars wait for petrol or repairs at Fisher's garage with its Esso sign.

The attractive Beehive Cottage on the right was originally the lodge to Captain Stopford's house on Ashby Road. That house, alas, was demolished, and the site used to build the Community Centre.

Instead the carving was in the garden of a cottage called, appropriately enough, The Elephant and Castle.

This is another picturesque Hampshire village, home to a good selection of perfect whitewashed thatched cottages.

The fine set of old cottages on the left were probably owned by the railway. They face the Railway Arms across the well-laid-out street.

In 1921 a catering business was started at Bracebridge Cottages and in 1983 it became Bobby Brown's.

The village was, of course, much smaller then, with just four sizeable families and a dozen cottages.

I doubt if she had many amenities in that little cottage. TV aerials are absent: this was still the radio age, and television was a crude and expensive luxury.

White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.

In this view the Beehive shop and the dormered cottage beyond survive, but the buildings beyond have been rebuilt for Townsends and the Post Office.

The statue of Queen Victoria, which still stands on the corner, was taken from the front of the stone mason's house, Victoria Cottage, with the scaffolding (beyond the garage).

In World War II the big house was commandeered for housing American officers, and Christie moved to the thatched cottage on the quay.

There was also a tannery, sited well away from the cottages because of its smell.

Beside the clapboarded cottage is Franklin`s butcher`s shop. This used to get flushed out and cleaned once a week, sending water coursing down the street. Next door is the Co-op drapery.

The 18th- and early 19th-century cottages on the left face the timber-framed house, which was built as a single dwelling in 1540; it is continuously jettied with a hearth-passage entrance

The Swan pub dates from the 1870s and, apart from the loss of the boundary wall and railings, remains, as do the cottages.

This is Burford Street, with stone houses of all shapes and sizes from cottages to the Swan Hotel on the left, a part-Tudor building, and the urbane Georgian of Ryton House on the right with its four brick

This row of flint and brick cottages are in the style of the 17th century, but they have the date 1844 over the porch.

The 17th century millworkers' cottages are now part of hotel accommodation.

The cottages are now all private dwellings - the one with the shop blind has a pretty bay window today.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

Visitors staying in these cottages would enjoy a quiet holiday walking the marshy banks of the estuary and the surrounding heathlands, or boating and fishing.