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The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above

Fishermen's cottages indicate that inshore fishing and shrimping was a part of the scene, and there was still some golden sand on the beach.

On the left are Adelaide Cottage and Caithness House. Several of the terraced houses have had bay windows added to the first floor rooms. The Sole Bay Inn was run by Mrs Maria Powditch.

In the foreground is Boathouse Cottage, now rendered, plastic-windowed and hidden behind a high rendered wall.

Viewed from the old railway bridge, here is Vine Cottage by the River Anton where it joins the Test at Fullerton Junction.

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.

The three groups of cottages are timber-framed and date from the 17th and 18th centuries. There is a white brick Gothic battlemented arch between the first and second group.

Facing out across the Weald, 400ft below, this small group of sandstone cottages is close to an Iron Age fort.

The row of cottages on the left is known as Station Terrace, with the post office close to the camera with a post box and stamp machine set into the wall.

The rather delightful cottage on the right behind its iron railings went in the 1960s to be replaced by humdrum modern houses.

There are many thatched cottages to be enjoyed here. At this time it was common policy to destroy dilapidated buildings rather than repair them.

These thatched cottages are by the old Reading Room on the North and South Tidworth borders. In front of the Reading Room is a red telephone box.

A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.

Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).

This Edwardian view shows the footpath to Pegwell village; on the extreme left are the coastguard cottages, built to prevent the extensive smuggling activities that were then carried out at this isolated

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.

The smoking chimney of the paper mill is in the middle foreground, with the cottages of Chartham Hatch just behind.

St James' Church at Kingston, in effect the Scott family chapel of the Earls of Eldon from Encombe House, viewed looking southwards from cottages in South Street.

Known locally as the Cottage Hospital (its real name was the Victoria Memorial Hospital) the hospital was opened in 1903.

Today there is another white gate at the entrance to the church, just across the road from this delightful old cottage.

These houses, built in 1933, are called Coanwood Cottages. They face onto the road leading to Wareside village centre.

The cottage, glimpsed behind the trees, stands beside Lower Walditch Road. East Mill, a corn mill, was on the north side of East Road.

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

Cottages sit beside Skilling Hill Road in a panorama eastwards across the double vales of the River Simene and the River Brit.