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All the cottages in this terrace used to be the same design as the centre example with its distinctive chequered brickwork and curious extended porch.

The plaque on the second cottage on the left bears the initials 'CBAM' and is dated 1708. In the north-west corner of the parish lies the ancient Hatfield Forest.

The stone cottages and red brick Methodist chapel have changed little except for some modern doors and windows.

The stone cottages and red brick Methodist chapel have changed little except for some modern doors and windows.

Further along the road stands a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage.

Looking at this beautiful 16th-century thatched cottage, it is not difficult to see what attracted Kenneth Graham, author of The Wind in The Willows, and Dick Francis, ex-jockey and thriller writer, to

Fore Street once had many thatched cottages and a stream running down one side, but it was rebuilt in the 19th century, when the town prospered with the woollen industry.

The 100ft tower of St Peter and St Paul's Church dominates this estate village of grey lias cottages. The tower is in the Somerset style, and is decorated with fifty carved figures.

Driving through West End, the visitor is reminded of the Dutch engineers who were brought over to work on the fenland drainage and for whom some of the terraced cottages were built.

The clocktower, top left, is part of the Co-operative building, which was opened in 1880 at a cost of £7,000 on the site of the old Cottage Hospital.

West Street includes various almshouses and picturesque stone cottages. The Victoria Inn on the left of the picture is now a private house.

Here we look up School Hill, past New Cottage (new in 1716 when built) to Stone House.

Overlooking the sea are some fine old cottages, exuberant in design and with bulging thatch.

All Saints' Cottage is on the left.

Notice the charming cottage draped with creeper opposite the churchyard with its unusual porch, and the village shop next to it.

The view is much the same today, with Gould's Cottages (c1840) on the left-hand side.

The cottages and buildings along the beach belong to the earliest settlement, while the later Victorian developments are strung out along the higher ground.

The ivy-clad cottages facing the village green were built in the 19th century for agricultural workers, and are an example of the general improvement in housing for estate workers.

photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the River Chelmer.The tall house on the left survives, but the cottage

Already falling into disrepair in Victorian times, thatched cottages on the east side of South Street, beside South Bridge, would soon succumb to the front-line of urbanisation.

Thomas Hardy was born in this cottage in 1840 and wrote his first three novels whilst living there. He retained an interest in the family home until the end of his life.

The mostly 15th-century church of St Nicholas rises above the narrow street of stone cottages.

Low, single-storey whitewashed cottages face up to the marine elements.

The second cottage on the left is now the library.