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Here we see several more of the local ironstone cottages with their well kept and productive gardens. There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

Beyond the bathing machines, the newer town is on the left, the white cottages of Quay Town are on the right, and the old town climbs the hill towards the medieval church with its tall 15th-century

The traffic lights are still there, as are the attractive cottages, one of which was originally a corn mill.

Most of the cottages and small holdings were originally built for mine workers.

It was converted into cottages in 1931, when the thatch was replaced by tiles. The three-storey building in the centre used to be the Valiant Soldier Inn and was built about 1670.

Houses and cottages, many single-storey and built of local stone with slate roofs, line the long, winding main street.

But the site of the old bridge and the cottages in this photograph can still be seen nearby.

At the southern limits of the county, close by Diss, this delightful village of knapped flint cottages sits in wooded countryside in the valley of the Little Ouse.

This pastoral scene posed by the photographer is charming; it shows the steep village street leading to the cottages grouped around the stocks, church and inn.

The cottage Fiddlers Folly on the left is now largely rebuilt. All else survives except the shop-in-a-shed.

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

The village has rows of sandstone cottages and a number of farms. It was self-sufficient in the 19th century.

Two bus stops are opposite each other: one is outside the shop advertising Zebrite, a black lead used to clean iron grates and the ranges found in most cottages.

the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic Italian restaurant named Frascati, and with a bus stop immediately outside what was then Highway Cottage

Today many of the cottages are holiday homes, and consequently Stanton can feel as though the door has been locked while the inhabitants are away.

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

Forsters Cottage and a memorial commemorate William Edward Forster MP (1818-86), born in the village, who was the architect of the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

To the north, the National Society for Epileptics, informally grouped round Arts and Crafts style houses and cottages, started in 1895 and still going strong.

Much of the old village with its rows and terraces of small flint cottages survives amid the sprawl.

the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages

Its winding streets and lanes are lined with slate-roofed stone cottages, some colour-washed, their gardens stuffed tight with exotic plants and palms.

The thatched cottage next to it has gone also, although bits have been retained as a garden wall.

The local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church (centre) rely on simple, but excellent, details for effect - no incongruous plastic windows and doors here.

Lavender Cottage dates back to the 15th century. In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.