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The post office in this pretty black and white cottage opened in 1840, the year the Penny Black stamp first appeared.

This pleasant, peaceful and picturesque area has some cottages scattered about and little else. There is a stone church close to the nearby railway line.

With the towers of the Minster in the background, this street lined with red brick and white-rendered Georgian cottages has a pleasing elegance and symmetry.

Near some cottages below the summit of Pen Cyrn mountain, it is just possible to make out the flat ridge on which the former Llangattock tramroad was built from the Nantyglo Ironworks to Llangattock.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eye- browed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings—the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

The cottages on the right were almshouses. They are gone now.

The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.

In the picture an old farmhouse stands next to farm buildings; the two semi-detached stone cottages alongside probably housed farm workers.

On this road leading to the sea front, the cottage on the left has flint walls and a thatched roof. The front garden is decorated with staddle stones.

All the cottages on the left were demolished by 1910. Both sides of the water were reached by stairs from the High Street.

All the cottages on the left were demolished by 1910. Both sides of the water were reached by stairs from the High Street.

The smithy, opposite, has given way to a garage; and the row of cottages (with a sign saying 'Cyclist's Rest') are long-since demolished.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

These cottages are at Goosehill, on the lane which leads up to the entrance of Peak Cavern, whose entrance gapes under the limestone crags visible to the left of this photograph.

The cottages in the background face onto Biggin Lane; they have all been demolished. The site became the market in 1973.

The fishermen's cottages on the left have been replaced since, but the cobbles and granite gutter on the right can still be identified. The lane leads down to Fore Street.

Lace-making has always been an important tradition in East Devon, though it would be a rare sight today to see it carried out in the street by a local cottager.

The lighthouse remains the property of Trinity House, but the keepers' cottages are now in the ownership of the religious community.

Looking westwards into the idyllic cul-de-sac, hydrangeas are in bloom beside Vine Cottage (right).

The cottage behind the house was separated from it in the 1940s or 1950s. It had previously been all one house. Note the round chimney stack on the right.

A close-up of the cottages nestling by the side of the River Medway, with St Peter's Church in the background.

Cottages cluster around the green, with the gable end of the chapel in the centre background.

The old war-time nissen hut, at one time such a familiar sight in the British countryside, has gone, replaced by a car park and children's playground, and the thatched cottages have been renovated

Before that, a pub called the Horseshoes had stood nearby, on the site of Hart Cottages.