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This small parish in the Berkeley Vale consists of isolated farms and cottages, including these quaint brick two- storey buildings with their thatched roofs and inclined dormer windows.

Fashionable hotels soon lined the front, with villa residences and smart cottages being erected along the slopes of Sid Vale to cater for a dramatic increase in the resident population.

The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.

Here are more Essex weatherboard cottages with tiled roofs. Notice the sign for Teas and Hovis bread over one small shop.

The watering cans were no doubt ready to water the plants in the cottage garden.

The Vespa scooter (centre right) has just passed the turning to the Park, marked by the 18th-century Park Corner and Willow Cottages on the right.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

The small semi-circular extension on the cottage at the end of Croft Lane is a bread oven.

This sleepy row of terraced cottages has, in fact altered very little, although there is no longer a post office here.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

In the 1950s, most of Sidford's cottages were owned by villagers who worked locally. Today's residents are more likely to commute to Sidmouth or Exeter.

The Wicks family also owned the 17th-century Briar Cottage, next door. The tenements with the crowstepped gable beyond were built as almshouses. They are now minus their veranda.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

Here beside the old lane is one of the few thatched cottages.

Thatched cottages abound in this view; at this time, Trumpington was a village separate from Cambridge.

Around it are farm cottages, and in the middle distance stands the Old Hall.

Southsea started life as a group of farm cottages but by the time this photograph was taken, it bore the stamp of a classic seaside resort, characterised by the terraces, villas and open spaces so typical

Leigh is noted for its weatherboard cottages. Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.

This great peak gives some shelter to the little village of Seatown - a tiny resort of cottages and caravans just down the road from Chideock.

Tom Moore lived at Sloperton Cottage, Westbrook for nearly 34 years whilst under the patronage of the Earl of Shelburne.

Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

Sherborne Park separated the village into east and west ends back in the 14th century, but there is a uniformity throughout of well restored cottages, fronted by long well stocked gardens and bounded by

Not far from Lyndhurst is the village of Emery Down, blessed with a number of attractive cottages and a row of quite beautiful almshouses.

The 1930s Shoe Inn can be seen between the post office and the thatched cottage.