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This row of flint and brick cottages are in the style of the 17th century, but they have the date 1844 over the porch.

The 17th century millworkers' cottages are now part of hotel accommodation.

The cottages are now all private dwellings - the one with the shop blind has a pretty bay window today.

White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.

In 1921 a catering business was started at Bracebridge Cottages and in 1983 it became Bobby Brown's.

The village was, of course, much smaller then, with just four sizeable families and a dozen cottages.

In this view the Beehive shop and the dormered cottage beyond survive, but the buildings beyond have been rebuilt for Townsends and the Post Office.

The statue of Queen Victoria, which still stands on the corner, was taken from the front of the stone mason's house, Victoria Cottage, with the scaffolding (beyond the garage).

I doubt if she had many amenities in that little cottage. TV aerials are absent: this was still the radio age, and television was a crude and expensive luxury.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

Instead the carving was in the garden of a cottage called, appropriately enough, The Elephant and Castle.

The Kent-Sussex border divides the village in two, but this area, the older part with tile-hung cottages clustered around a triangular green, is in Kent.

Visitors staying in these cottages would enjoy a quiet holiday walking the marshy banks of the estuary and the surrounding heathlands, or boating and fishing.

It remains a village of beautiful cottages on the high road between Exeter and Dorchester.

There was also a tannery, sited well away from the cottages because of its smell.

Beside the clapboarded cottage is Franklin`s butcher`s shop. This used to get flushed out and cleaned once a week, sending water coursing down the street. Next door is the Co-op drapery.

Here we see the Black Rock, Black Rock Quarry and Black Rock Cottage, and behind is the bridge over the railway.

Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows. On the right, the parked cars wait for petrol or repairs at Fisher's garage with its Esso sign.

The attractive Beehive Cottage on the right was originally the lodge to Captain Stopford's house on Ashby Road. That house, alas, was demolished, and the site used to build the Community Centre.

The 18th- and early 19th-century cottages on the left face the timber-framed house, which was built as a single dwelling in 1540; it is continuously jettied with a hearth-passage entrance

In World War II the big house was commandeered for housing American officers, and Christie moved to the thatched cottage on the quay.

This is another picturesque Hampshire village, home to a good selection of perfect whitewashed thatched cottages.

On the right is Old Forge Cottage, which adjoined the blacksmith's shop.

Winding, hedge-bound lanes and low-built cottages thatched with wheat straw were typical of Inskip, Treales, Wharles and other Fylde villages.