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To the right is the garden of Ivel Cottage.

The post office here, like so many in rural areas, closed and was incorporated into Post Cottage.

Seen as a ruin, looking east from the beach of Worbarrow Bay, stone-roofed Sea Cottage was the home of generations of the Miller family.

Along the western edge of the Green, medieval and Tudor houses have either been subdivided into workers' cottages, rgiven Georgian façades.

The village pond, the prison, the ancient hollow oak and the cottages nearby all remain today.

The inscribed plaque on the cottage told the story of how Hargreaves was compelled to leave Stanhill because of persecution by local handloom weavers who feared for their livelihoods.

Excellent 18th-century houses are to be found on the Leicester Road, but here we see a contrast between the thatched cottages of pre-18th-century date and the Rose and Crown pub, an early roadhouse.

Lord Armstrong began building Cragside in the 1860s; he also built almshouses in the town (1896) as well as the Addycombe cottages (1873) for retired staff from his estate.

A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan church.

The picture shows Downland cottages with flint walling and tiled roofs. The village is now cut in two by a very busy dual carriageway, and is the location of the University of Sussex campus.

This former agricultural village gave way to rows and rows of workers' cottages, many of which remain.

The 1930s saw the demolition of a number of picturesque cottages to make way for less attractive replacements, particularly in Fir Tree Lane, once called Dog Lane.

Amongst these was a very old cruck-built Fylde cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century. Leckonby Hall is the most interesting historical building hereabouts.

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Many of the old houses were weaver's cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving was the major industry in the area.

Even here the developers are busy: the cleared space beyond Laburnum Cottage is soon to be increased in size with the removal of Nos 50 and 51 Cross Street, opposite the Angel Hotel, at the junction

However, look a little closer and you can pick out a few subtle changes.The white cottage on the right of the High Street is now the premises of an estate agent, and the ivy which covers the house

Seatown hamlet consists of the Anchor Inn (seawards) and a coastguard station, comprising a watch house (facing the sea), Guard House Cottages, and the boathouse.

John Bunyan, author of 'Pilgrim's Progress', was born near Elstow, and lived in a cottage on Elstow High Street for four years after marrying his first wife.

Oliver Cromwell stayed here in 1657 with Sir Richard Onslow, with some of his retainers billeted at the 15th-century Cromwell Cottage.

The builder and undertaker's shop on the extreme right was on the corner of Church Road, and the frontage of the adjacent cottage is little altered.

Part of the Warter Priory Estate, these cottages were extended upwards and thatched in the 1930s.

Sir Nicholas brought skilled weavers to his house at Stonyhurst to teach villagers textile weaving when times were hard, and he then supplied cottages with hand looms.

Dressed stone walls, bay windows on the cottages, a corner shop, two early television aerials and motor traffic indicate that times are changing.