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C ottages with steep, tumbling thatched roofs abound in this view of the village street. At this time Trumpington was a village separate from the city of Cambridge.

Litton Cheney has a charming collection of Stuart and Georgian cottages strung out along its winding streets. Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

This photograph shows the town clinging to the sea with some lines of very small cottages. The mound is man-made, and was very likely first topped by a Norman fort.

A very rural Post Office - part cottage, part shop. Note the Victorian post box and the arrow for the Telegraph Office.

So have the patch of grass, the thatched cottage and the trees. The Royal Oak is still there, though it looks very different now.

Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

The village rose to prosperity as a cloth making centre, but when the Industrial Revolution shifted production from weavers' cottages to industrial factories, Uley's fortunes went into decline.

Lobster pots dry in the fresh air outside one of the tiny cottages that cling to the dramatic cliff swooping down to the sea. Coastal erosion is a constant peril around Runswick bay.

The second cottage on the left in this typical row is, I believe, where my grandmother was born. She worked for the Garnett family of Low Moor.

The cottage to the right of the old school has a date plaque '1680'.

To the right the 19th- century Church Rooms, also in stone, survive, but all else in the view has gone; the thatched cottage has been replaced by bungalows!

Perhaps this cottage still survives but I am sure there will no longer be calves, pigs and chickens in the yard.

Of the cottages shown here only the one in the foreground still survives.

Many were given a fashionable facelift in Victorian times with additions such as the bay fronts to the cottages on the right.

In the earlier one, looking north up High Street, The Greyhound Inn is still an 18th-century colourwashed building, while Burgis' shop on the left corner and the dor- mered cottages beyond are

Viewed from above the River Roeburn, the scene overlooks the roofs of the village cottages, most of which were put up during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Reeth's green is typical of many Pennine villages: in more troubled ancient times, cattle were herded here, with the cottages grouped defensively around it.

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

Many of its stone cottages were built to house the mill's workers, which still stands on the edge of the town.

Road access between the seashore cottages of old Saltburn and the new town required a steep incline, which has been the scene of some spectacular runaway vehicle crashes.

This photograph shows the village centre with its rows of pretty cottages.

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.

Cottages were to the left and the operational part of the building was at the seaward end. Further south, on the beach, there was an older thatched Watch House which became Old Watchouse Cafe.