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The sails of the Union Windmill peep over the roofs of the half-timbered cottages lining the street.

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.

Rows of stone cottages and rolling farmland characterise Brookhouse, which is close to Caton with Littledale and a popular retreat for commuters to Lancaster.

Beyond are three rows of once jettied cottages.

Opposite are the early 18th-century Red Lion Cottages, which have the same barge boards as the pub. The whole frontage has now been railed off from the road.

The Victorian St Dunstan`s Cottages, left, were built for staff at Cane Hill Hospital.

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

The lock keeper's cottage (left) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

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.

The charming cottages on the left have either been demolished or modernised out of recognition.

On the road to Market Harborough, Desborough is a small town with various ironstone cottages and inns.

This is a classic English village setting, with rows of cottages overlooking a green and an old red telephone box.

Havelock Street is a terrace of Victorian artisan cottages, while Station Road remains the principal shopping street. The Co-op is still the Co-op but with a less attractive modern shopfront.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

The rather unusual construction of the front part of this old cottage, which stands beside the slope leading up to the church, is not entirely apparent from this picture, which groups it with an adjacent

The Buck Inn on the corner consists of three cottages joined into one. The name comes from a family called Buck who once lived in the property.

All we can see in this photograph are cottages and the village shop. It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982. The last bare-fisted boxing match was held in Wadhurst in 1863.

Concealed from view is its 15th-century traceried window, but the 176-foot tower of the 14th-century church of St Mary's soars as a landmark above the surrounding cottages.

A neat public toilet block is on the left, built in a Cotswold cottage style to harmonise with the street scene.

Note the traditional checkerboard brickwork on the cottages to the right, which also appear to have been the subject of some infill building since the 18th century.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile- hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

Previously, silk production had been very much a cottage industry, but by the middle of the 18th century, mills powered at first by water and then by steam changed everything.

St Paul's Church, behind the cottages, was founded in the 13th century. Rebuilt by the Tudors and again by the Victorians, it contains interesting relics of its history.