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Between 1867 and 1904, finding themselves short of workers accomodation, the Guest family built more than 110 cottages accross their far-flung estate, paying special attension to Canford Magna itself

Little has changed in more than a century, though the cottages just past Northcott's shop (left) are no longer thatched.

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

The 17th-century cottages used to house lead miners, and there is evidence of an old smelt mill. The village has a Quaker burial ground and a former Methodist chapel.

This is a street mainly of 16th- or 17th- century timber-framed cottages.

In the distance is a row of mock-Tudor cottages.

Adjoining the post office is Enjoyable Cottage; then comes the roof of the Primary School, and Russell Villas of 1885. The furthest buildings were demolished in the 1970s.

Beyond the green there is a row of post-enclosure brick cottages.

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

The village, with its church of St Andrew, retains many old thatched brick and half-timbered cottages, along with a village shop.

A well-finished thatched cottage is accompanied by other slate roofed houses.

He saw what he wanted in this winding street of thatched cottages, and just needed the helpfulness of the driver to bring the thing off.

At Tyrley the lock keeper's single storey cottage is situated between Locks 1 and 2. From Tyrley the canal crosses the Tern by a single-arched aqueduct and crosses the border into Shropshire.

A lace maker works at a floral sprig of Honiton lace outside her cottage door at Beer in South Devon.

Two becks twist and turn through the village on their way to the sea, and many of the cottages cling precariously to the sides of the ravines.

At one of these cottages lived an elderly lady, who spent much time seated at her window, who as a four-year-old girl had been present at the Battle of Waterloo with her father, a colour sergeant in

The view looks northwards from Shillingstone Hill over Eastcombe Cottage (bottom left) and its beehives (bottom centre) to Eastbrook Farm and the council houses at the east end of the

This was built as a much smaller cottage in 1653, and rebuilt in the 1870s by Robert Wilson.

The cottages were owned by Joshua Page, one of the many local brewers, as accommodation for his workers. Later it was the site of a fish and chip shop run by Fred Harris.

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

Free from traffic and flanked by the old cottages, this post-war scene evokes an essence of earlier village days.

Moulton is a village of narrow winding lanes, lined by stone-built cottages and houses, nowadays with traffic calming and one-way systems.

The backs of the houses at the right are Ivy Cottage, a 16th-century one with a tile-hung gable, and the post office next to it.

This view is northwards towards New Swanage, with Cliff Cottage and the Beach Restaurant and Stores (left centre) visible beyond the crowds.