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Note the typical Kentish architecture - hung tiles and a hipped roof - and the big conservatory and the round oast house to the right.

The photographer appears to have stepped into a garden and asked the inhabitants of the house to come out and pose.

This beautiful scene of blossoms and oast houses was obviously taken in the spring. These oasts are of a slightly different design to those seen at Wateringbury earlier in this chapter.

For an estate village, the houses are considered very large. This is believed to be because they were built to accommodate looms. It was a wealthy wool village for many years.

For an estate village, the houses are considered very large. This is believed to be because they were built to accommodate looms. It was a wealthy wool village for many years.

A great deal of older residential housing was demolished in Victorian times to make way for Cheapside.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

Note the recent cliff top housing developments on the outskirts of neighbouring Port Isaac.

This substantial building now houses the Rochford Hundred Golf Club. Ann Boleyn had links with this ancient town.

The choir, the chapter house and the Beauchamp Chapel escaped destruction, and by 1704 a new nave and a Gothic tower had been built.

Next to Hilton's lovely church is the village green, landscaped by Capability Brown, and surrounded by houses dating back to Tudor times. Hilton sports a turf-cut maze as its most unusual feature.

This building replaced the old one in Wine Street, which now houses the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society and Wine Street Gallery upstairs.

Originally granted to the monks of St Michel in Normandy, Otterton's priory remained an important religious house until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

The window cleaner is outside a house which has a plaque inscribed 'Joseph and Jane Caldecott 1714', but the house is much older than that.

Again Raikes' house, 38 Southgate Street, stands out.

The original campanile (Bell Tower) was behind the house on the left of the picture, and was removed in 1989.

The majority of Sydling's fine houses and thatched cottages have survived into modern times, making this one of Dorset's most interesting villages for the student of local architecture.

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump. This was quite acceptable in the 1950s perhaps, but is not legal now.

Space for trees in a street is often a sign that these were houses for the middle class. On the left the large trees are in Scott Park

It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

On the western shore stands the regency style house built in 1827 by the actor Edmund Kean.

The Holme takes its name from an ancient Scandinavian word which means 'an island surrounded by marshes', but the oldest part of the house dates only from the early 17th century.