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The tall building behind the hip-roofed thatched cottage is a water tower, which has since been demolished. The general stores and fish and chip shop were owned by D A Chatters.

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Once just a hamlet of fishermen's cottages, Budleigh grew as a town and watering place in the first half of the 19th century, when a number of well-heeled society figures took up residence.

Built in 1870 to replace the earlier Wilbraham almshouses, these delightful cottages are said to stand on a site originally used for a leper hospital founded here in the 13th century.

The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences. The original manor house, The Burystead, is late Elizabethan.

This is optimistic, to say the least, but the heart of the former village is still a pleasant and rather unexpected scene of brick cottages, a pub, a former cattle pound and this sandstone church.

With the pink-washed cottage alongside, there was no mistaking it. The Shard Bridge Hotel was another stopping off place.

It is easy to understand why this quarter of South Cerney, with its squat stone cottages ranged along the banks of the River Churn, are often photographed by day trippers.

The thatched cottage on the right has an early AA metal sign, giving mileages to local villages. The next building down had been Goymour's the butchers until 1950.

Most cottages here were built in the century from 1750, and accommodated coal miners. Other trades here included spinning and weaving.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.

Rows of neat cottages line the road; not far away, though not visible here, is the timber-framed St Mary's House.

Note the pram in the front garden, and the picturesque stone cottages. The bus stop on the left is a reminder of the urgent need for public transport in rural areas.

He is next to Church End Cottages, which are timber-framed with hipped tiled roofs. The popular Bucks Head pub is on the right.

The Victoria Cottage Hospital was opened in Pettits Lane in 1888 on a plot of land donated by Mr W Mashiter.

In 1808 a group of cottages stood on the western side of the road facing Dole Green, but only one early 19th-century building had survived by the 1990s.

It remains one of the leafier suburbs, though in 1936 the city council destroyed much of its appeal by demolishing the lovely old cottages which clustered round the green.

Some picturesque cottages were destroyed to widen these roads and create the roundabout, which now dominates the view. On the far side of the roundabout is Lickey Road, the main route from Birmingham.

The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

Sad to relate, this restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development

The lock-keeper's cottage was partly rebuilt in 2000.

We are high on the limestone White Peak plateau with this photograph of farm buildings and cottages in the hamlet of Small Dale, north of Peak Dale, to the north east of Buxton.