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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.

Fashionable hotels soon lined the front, with villa residences and smart cottages being erected along the slopes of Sid Vale to cater for a dramatic increase in the resident population.

Lying at the foot of wooded limestone slopes to the east of Cringlebarrow, these rendered stone cottages, with pronounced dripstones protecting their windows and doorways from the rain, are typical of

Some new homes were built, and older cottages were converted into more luxurious accommodation.

The terrace of cottages in Allotment Lane has ragstone walls and a brick main façade; there is a low pediment at the centre with an arched window.

In the distance on the right, the delightful Flemish weavers' cottages still exist today.

Generally regarded as the prettiest village in Surrey, this delightful picture of two small girls beneath the venerable oak trees, against a backdrop of some of the picturesque cottages at the heart of

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.

Both are delightful, with old Devon cob cottages and attractive gardens in an area of fine scenery. It is hard to imagine the crowded streets of Plymouth only a few miles away.

Today the cross is shaded by trees, but the cottage behind, known as Well House, is still recognisable.

Here we see Great Brington's picturesque stone and thatched cottages.

Peeping into view above the rooftops of these cottages, now sadly gone, is the elegant spire of St Katherine's Church, one of the tallest in the county.

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

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.

This beautiful cottage still stands, largely unaltered apart from a little pruning of the creeper on the walls and the trees to the left.

Stoney Cottage, the jettied, timber-framed building on the left, was saved from demolition and restored to one dwelling c1965.

The village was an important market town when neighbouring Budleigh Salterton consisted of a few scattered fishermen's cottages.

The second cottage on the left is now the library.

Nowadays it is a prosperous commuting area, and modern semis punctuate the old stone cottages.

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

At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked

Some fine old cottages and a pond border the large green and common.

Delightful dark brown granite cottages hug the narrow choked streets of Mousehole (pronounced Mouzel).

The building on the left, now demolished and replaced by St Thomas's Church Hall, was a cottage for the tannery workers.