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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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The old brick barn still stands, but these lovely cottages have been replaced by two red-brick modern houses.

The ferryman's cottage remains, but is now inaccessible and very private, with the river path blocked by a gate to its east.

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.

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

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.

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.

The trees on the right have gone, as have some of the terraced cottages, replaced by new housing and flats.

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

Despite bordering Heathrow Airport with all its urbanisation, its tiny village green and some quaint cottages survive.

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.

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

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

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