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Many of the old houses were weaver's cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving was the major industry in the area.

Some of the cottages go back to the 1500s. The local lords were the Lister family, many of whom lie in the small village church.

The cottage to the left and the elegant brick bridge would appear to be contemporary with the date of the canal.

Traditional thatched cottages lined the cobbled streets leading to the church. Outside it stands an ancient slim pillar; some villagers call it the cross and others the sundial.

Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages.

Much of the abbey stone was used to build the cottages - so from then the village could rightly be called Rosedale Abbey.

On the left, by the Hillman Imp, we see the opening created by the demolition of cottages in the early 1960s to make way for the town's Register Office and Library.

Dunchurch, 4 miles to the south- west of Rugby, is a small village of thatched cottages and popular public houses and restaurants.

Howard was beatified as the Blessed William Howard by a decree of (Nick Thomas) Izaak Walton's cottage at Shallowford is one of Stafford's three heritage sites.

William Bramwell, born in a thatched cottage, heard the preaching of Christopher Hopper (who was known as 'son of thunder') and determined to establish Methodism in rural Fylde.

He also built a village school, the parish church, the vicarage and the row of terraced cottages in Church Street.

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

Very few houses were in existence excepting the old thatched cottages facing the Chipstead Valley Road.

There were cottages in Bulls Cross Lane (now Bulls Cross), and there were two small settlements in Whitewebbs Lane-Romey Street (at the Bulls Cross End) and Whitewebbs proper (near the King and

Typical of many older cottages in central Bedfordshire, the mixture of timber cladding, wattle and daub, tile and thatch gives The Barn a picture postcard look to be envied.

The cottages are now shops, but the timber-framed gabled range adjacent remains in residential use.

There were cottages in Bulls Cross Lane (now Bulls Cross), and there were two small settlements in Whitewebbs Lane-Romey Street (at the Bulls Cross End) and Whitewebbs proper (near the King and

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

Marlowes itself was gradually developed with several fine villas and shops appearing amongst speculative building and shabby cottages.

The author's grandmother was a Sunday School teacher at the mission house in the 1930s, 40s and 50s; she lived in one of the cottages in the village, and here the author's mother was born and brought

Frogmore Mill, together with The Cottage, extended in 1927 to become the new boardroom for Apsley Mill, has survived to be transformed into a new venture, the Apsley Paper Trail.

before its demolition in the 1930s, but in 2005 its hemispherical two-part door can still be seen in good condition, not a mile away from its original position, gracing the front of an old cottage

Their old, moated manor house became a farm; a few cottages and a blacksmith's shop remained around the junction of Horton Lane and Long Grove Road with a more substantial building at West Park farmhouse

Littleham retains its village feel, though only a few ancient cottages have survived to cluster around the even older church.