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Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.

A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church.

This view is taken from Milford Road, with Farnham Road at the right curving past the former blacksmith's forge, which is now a cottage, The Old Forge.

The Gapper family cottage on Dowlands Landslip was approached from the coast path, after having been detached from the hamlet above to which it formerly belonged.

Here, next to the Ure, are mill cottages. Around the charming green we can see the old school (centre), later a billiard hall, now restored as a private house.

Note the boats pulled up above the high- water mark, the free-range livestock grazing, and the vegetable plot by the cottage.

This peaceful village to the south of Marlborough is one long street retaining many old cottages.

Until the railway arrived in 1859 the area was predominantly agricultural, with only a few farmhouses and cottages. This is a view of Central Road, originally called Cheam Common Hill.

In the early 20th century there were still many thatched cruck-built cottages, but now this is a village beloved by rich commuters. Its windmill has been restored by Dr J Ward.

Here on the left is Sundial Cottage (1830), once the post office. The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains.

Here looking towards the village we see two cottages built in 1787 (left). On the right is the schoolhouse of 1855, later the National School from 1868 to 1877.

The tall chimney above the thatched cottage belonged to Tom Rowe's cheese factory. Run from Preston, it started business in 1930. Part of its sign can be seen just behind the vintage car.

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction

Further along the street there are 17th-century thatched cottages, but the closest house is Victorian, with a metal balcony over its bay- window shop front.

Although the photograph captures a cosy enclave of stone and thatched cottages, the village has expanded, and now contains a whole range of architectural styles.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

The row of four whitewashed cottages in the foreground leads up to the Vicarage Lane turning on the right; the lane crosses the river about 200 yards north of the Overflow, a weir at Waterford Marsh.

The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers.

On the left are Victorian cottages of the 1880s in Sussex style with a tile-hung upper floor, now demolished. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a

This view, looking downhill, is now barely recognisable: the cottages by the telegraph pole were cleared for 1960s road widening.

Leonard North's garage has gone, to be replaced by a pair of Surrey vernacular-style cottages. The parade to the left survives.

In its place stands a row of brick terraced cottages. In the distance, the thatched building with the brick chimney forms part of the original village school and the School House.