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The complex was built on a site previously occupied by a row of cottages adjacent to Cambridge Hall, and opened in 1878 having cost around £14,000.

Lavender Cottage dates back to the 15th century. In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

The streets and lanes here present a delightful medley of building styles, with their half-timbered houses and steep-roofed stone cottages.

The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers.

This view was taken north-eastwards along Marine Parade, below Langmoor Gardens (left), to the Bay Hotel, 1830-built Madeira Cottages and Cobb Gate Jetty (centre).

Eaves Hall, next to the village, is now a country club for the Civil Service Motoring Association.The cottages on the left were a Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.

The parish church, the cottages and the café selling petrol to the occasional motorist or serving refreshment to some tired cyclists reveal the slow pace that has now ceased to exist for most of us.

The old post office, dated 1672, is now a residential cottage, but the Old Smithy, over to the right, is open as a needlework gallery.

Two of the nearest white cottages have gone, but essentially the scene is little changed today. The curious tall thin building behind the telegraph pole is the 1872 Loyal Gaskill Lodge of Oddfellows.

Looking east with terrace houses on the left, then a thatched cottage and a 19th-century house with an Ionic porch.

Here we see one of Formby's older properties, a fine example of the type of cottage that was once common to this part of the coast.

Each cottage comprises two dwellings, with a central door and a tiny hall. The lane curves gently down towards the ornamental lake at the foot of the hill. CORFE CASTLE, From the Church

The church was built on the site of the former coastguards' cottages; it was built in two stages - the first was consecrated in 1908 and the second in 1915 - a great deal of stone used for its construction

The road is lined by mainly 19th-century cottages in which lived the workers from the watermills, workshops and small factories that were originally powered by their water wheels, later by steam engines

The Blackfriars, otherwise known as the South-East Tower, was used in the 19th century as a shop at street level with accommodation above—there was even a small cottage built on top.

The view has changed very little today, except for the development of the cottage next to the bridge, the Riverside Restaurant.

The weavers' cottages (right) are reminiscent of Kersey and Lavenham. They were restored in about 1960, when seven dwellings were reduced to three.

However, it is easy to become lost in the winding lanes, and to suddenly come upon the village with its wealth of thatched cottages, fringed with great trees.

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

The weatherboarded cottages are prominent among the stone fronted shops and restaurants, whose rich assortment of goods and services are lavishly advertised.

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

Chieveley boasts many fine period houses and cottages; here and there are new estates too.

The shot is southwards from Bay Cottage and the Royal Standard to the Cobb Warehouses (centre right).

These thatched cottages are on either side of the road to Brent Pelham at the eastern, outer reaches of Anstey.