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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.

These solid stone cottages, and the George Inn on the left, exhibit the robust and simple style which is common to most British fishing ports.

Among the old buildings, close to the new centre, is Barn House, an early barn conversion of little merit, Field End Farm House, Field End Lodge and Retreat Cottage, all timber-framed.

The fine house closing the view and the cottages in general remain readily recognisable. A single regret is the free importa- tion of plastic windows, which strike a discordant note.

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th- century church.

It landed on a row of cottages in Chapel Street opposite St Anne's Church, killing seven residents. The event is commemorated by the Whitehead Garden.

From the doors of these cottages fisherwives in their distinc- tive costume sold fish. A similar situation used to exist at Newhaven, near Edinburgh.

The old lock has long been derelict, and pleasure craft now moor by the riverside, which is separated from the cottages and village street by meadows.