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In the late 1960s the writer lived in a cottage almost next door to the toll house, at which time an extrovert Italian kept it as a general store.

In 1881, Francis Fisher had the cottages on the site demolished and erected this imposing new shop. Further on stands the Rose and Crown and the Compasses public houses.

In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.

In the main, this is a large red-brick village, but a few thatched stone cottages remain, as in the photograph - note its superb hedges and simple topiary.

The pub and other cottages have marks on their sides to indicate the height of the sea water which has flooded the area on several occasions.

In the main, this is a large red-brick village, but a few thatched stone cottages remain, as in the photograph - note its superb hedges and simple topiary.

In Victorian times the houses were each subdivided into labourers' cottages for the Leconfield Estate. Inland West Sussex From Bramber to Boxgrove

Back in 1880 an orchard, stables, piggeries, a bowling green and two cottages surrounded the pub.

It was the arrival of the Leeds/Liverpool canal in 1810 that turned a hand-loom cottage industry into the giant of the Industrial Revolution.

The cottages beyond are mid 19th-century, the outer ones bow-fronted, and much less grand than the six tall houses with bay windows extending up to the roof which date from the 1880s and are part of

The market was established in 1279 with a charter granted by Edward I, but Newtown's growth is due mainly to the application of technology to the cottage-based woollen industry.

of the coast between Axmouth and Lyme Regis took place on Christmas Day 1839, when a chasm nearly a mile in length was created when the existing cliffs fell towards the sea - carrying some cottages

The sign in front of the eight-bed Cottage Hospital (left) records that it was opened in 1897 as part of the town's commemoration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Here we see (from right to left) Weston Cottage, Old Timbers, the Little Homestead and at the top, the Durham Ox pub.

Rose Cottage (the first full building on the right in U36003) was the local telephone exchange long before the advent of STD.

They lived in a cluster of mud-daubed cottages built of wreck timber close to the walls of the church - hence Church Town.

The pair of cottages at the far left are dated 1870.

Close to the cottages at Grove End, the beautifully maintained maze commemorates the restoration of King Charles II to the throne.

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

Today many of the dwellings in Sandsend are holiday cottages, much to the detriment of village life, since they stand empty for the greater part of the year.

The long and spruce black and white cottage we see here was home to the harbourmaster. It was built as long ago as 1480; more recently, in 1919 it became the home of the actress Ellen Terry.

The previous estate manager had been his father James Fair, who had had the task of laying out the streets, making wider access roads and building cottages.

The Ten Commandments on the chancel wall were repainted in 1907 by William Peskett, a plumber, painter and glazier who lived in Bury Cottage.

Sad to say, the fine thatched house and barn have not survived; only the row of Rose Cottages stand today as a reminder of the tiny village of Wyddial.