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In 1830 Haywards Heath was described as 'a byword for the wilderness of its aspect, the rusticity of its few and scattered cottages, and the miryness of its roads'.

There are some fine cottages here, and no new housing.

Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house. The timbers of the upper storey have since been covered over by sandstone-coloured paint.

The buildings to the immediate left house the remains of a range of timber-framed cottages; their end frame has been exposed to view within the former building contractor's offices.

This quiet corner of Bramley includes a picturesque cottage with several cartwheels in the garden.

This picture depicts the spacious village green overlooked by pretty houses and cottages.

In Dawber's Lane the craft of wattle and daub for cruck-built cottages was carried on, but Runshaw Lane has few signs of antiquity today.

Behind the thatched cottage in Church Street, where the author's great-uncle and great-aunt lived in the late 19th century, is the castle mound built in 1066-71 by William Mallet.

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

Two becks twist and turn through the village on their way to the sea, and many of the cottages cling precariously to the sides of the ravines.

Free from traffic and flanked by the old cottages, this post-war scene evokes an essence of earlier village days.

The backs of the houses at the right are Ivy Cottage, a 16th-century one with a tile-hung gable, and the post office next to it.

Moulton is a village of narrow winding lanes, lined by stone-built cottages and houses, nowadays with traffic calming and one-way systems.

At one of these cottages lived an elderly lady, who spent much time seated at her window, who as a four-year-old girl had been present at the Battle of Waterloo with her father, a colour sergeant in

The view looks northwards from Shillingstone Hill over Eastcombe Cottage (bottom left) and its beehives (bottom centre) to Eastbrook Farm and the council houses at the east end of the

This was built as a much smaller cottage in 1653, and rebuilt in the 1870s by Robert Wilson.

This view is northwards towards New Swanage, with Cliff Cottage and the Beach Restaurant and Stores (left centre) visible beyond the crowds.

The cottages were owned by Joshua Page, one of the many local brewers, as accommodation for his workers. Later it was the site of a fish and chip shop run by Fred Harris.

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

In Nether Stowey, you are in Samuel Taylor Coleridge country: he rented a cottage in Lime Street from 1796; whilst here, he wrote 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', the latter famously interrupted

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

This hamlet of miners' cottages at Minions was first known as Cheesewring Railway because the line of that name passed through in 1846.

An excellent view showing the wide sweep of Saltburn Bay, with Huntcliffe and the Ship Inn and the cluster of cottages around it which formed the original Saltburn.

The Lychgate, c1520, is a half-timbered cottage by the churchyard with an upper floor extending above.