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We can almost feel the peace and tranquillity typified by a road deserted apart from a solitary horse-drawn delivery cart, standing near an attractive row of brick-built thatched cottages.

This and other cottages at this secluded spot are now leased out for holidays by the Landmark Trust.

Situated within the remains of the Rockingham Forest, Stanion has thatched and stone-tiled cottages looking towards the graceful tower and spire of its 13th-century church.

The thatched cottages beyond have been all but demolished, but the front walls remain as part of a flat roofed house called The Old Workshop.

The Old Crown Inn and the adjoining cottages are faced by the Georgian houses on the other side of the green.

The Victoria Cottage Hospital was opened in Pettits Lane in 1888 on a plot of land donated by Mr W Mashiter.

Before the arrival of the LCC Harold Hill housing estate, Noak Hill was an isolated hamlet; however the thatched weather-boarded cottage on the right still remains to this day.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

Until the 1850s there was just an inn and a cottage in the bay, with a limekiln nearby. It became such a popular resort at the end of the 19th century that it became known as the second Brighton.

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

These 18th-century stone cottages were built for workers at the nearby mill, which was originally water-driven - its wheel was second only in size to that of Laxey on the Isle of Man.

Many of its cottages were built in the 17th century, and the Royal Oak is older, claiming a date of about 1502. A famous treat, which is still sold today, was Granny's Nettle Beer.

Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right). The offshore rocks are Lucy's Ledge Jetty, Cobb Gate Jetty and Broad Ledge.

Here we see picturesque timber-framed cottages in the centre of Fittleworth, to the south-east of Petworth.

Picture postcard thatched cottages built of local stone mix pleasantly with Georgian and Victorian villas in this well-kept village.

The street remains largely unchanged, though the cottage on the right has recently undergone a thorough restoration.

Efford Cottage was built in 1823 by Sir Thomas Acland as a summer home. It stands below Efford Down, on top of which is the Storm Tower, also built by Acland.

Merrythought Cottage is the protruding building on the left.

A wealth of timbers, tiles, gables, chimney-stacks and a thatched gateway make another attractive High Road house north of Ruffetts Cottages. It is now obscured by trees and hedges.

It is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings – the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, influenced by

In the middle distance are coastguard cottages which are no longer there, for these sandstone cliffs are notoriously crumbly and prone to erosion.

The cottages on the left of this photograph have all gone now, and in their place is a landscaped public garden area with trees and bushes.

There are plenty of thatched cottages in Yardley Hastings, a pretty village on the A428 between Northampton and Bedford.

This cottage high up on the moors contained two stone plunge baths, one of which is still on display today. The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.