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This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

A thatched cottage is the post office. A sign on the rickety telegraph pole advertises a public telephone, and fixed to the nearby wall is a bus timetable proclaiming that this is a fare stage.

A scattering of mansions, cottages, and odds and ends of streets nestling beneath a limestone cliff or half hidden away among wooded slopes, this tiny Torquay of Lancashire has, as yet, escaped the notice

This is optimistic, to say the least, but the heart of the former village is still a pleasant and rather unexpected scene of brick cottages, a pub, a former cattle pound and this sandstone church.

The cottages in this alley still retain a simple charm. The house on the left has been given rough repairs for generations - its toppling dormer lacks several panes of glass.

Next to the car park of the Crown public house on the right, the creeper-covered cottage advertises the services of the local coal and coke merchant J W Roberts.

In 1908 another historian record- ed that 'many modern red-brick cottages are now in process of building to supply the needs of the men who are employed in the Eastleigh Railway Works'.

On the extreme right we can see the chimney of one of the 18th- and 19th-century textile mills which were situated in the valley bottom beside the River Frome; the weavers' cottages occupied

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'.

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.

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.

Wareham's South Causeway (centre right) is glimpsed between the thatched cottage and the coach. The building beside the latter is the King's Arms (right).

Chulmleigh is an ancient wool town, and its antiquity is reflected in the wealth of old cob and thatch cottages. A fire destroyed many old buildings in 1803.

Once just a hamlet of fishermen's cottages, Budleigh grew as a town and watering place in the first half of the 19th century, when a number of well-heeled society figures took up residence.

Saracen`s Cottage (far left) once accommodated servants and horses whilst their superiors were staying at The Saracen`s Head, Dunmow`s main coaching-inn.

To the right is the thatched Myrtle Cottage.

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

Another of Sussex's seaside villages, Rustington boasts a few flint-walled cottages and a medieval church.

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.

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.

Here, a little south of Cookham, is the My Lady Ferry with the lock-keeper's cottage on the far bank.

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.