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The inn on the banks of the river was two cottages and a shop in 1840. In 1851 it became an inn owned by the brewer Henry Prior.

The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers. Humphrey's Bakery, High Street, has been dated 1332.

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages. In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.

Mrs Crouch and her daughter are at the door of their cottage. This, too, has gone, and Freman Drive cuts now across the site.

Luss's vernacular cottages were described by James Denholm, in 1804 : 'the houses, in general, appear exceeding uncomfortable.

At the inland end of Shanklin Chine is the old village, a delightful array of thatched cottages, with honeysuckle and roses around the door.

Hillside View, the thatched stone cottage on the left, is unchanged but the one beyond has been dramatically altered so that virtually only the front elevation survives.

The Cottage on the left, No 81, with the ornate tile hangings, has lost its shop front projection.

The cottages at the far end went in slum clearance and were replaced in 1966 by an insensitive shopping precinct with flats over.

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages

This village comprises little more than this cluster of charming cottages just off Watling Street, but it has associations with two noted authors.

Chedworth is a sprawling village with Cotswold stone cottages that cling to the valley sides.

Many of the neat stone cottages, like the ones we see here, were lived in by workers on the Sherborne Estate. The church of St Mary Magdelene was rebuilt in 1850, but it has 14th-century origins.

This view is eastwards from Tudor Cottage and Mill Street; the trees are in Ilsington House grounds and beside the parish church (right- hand background).

The local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church (centre) rely on simple, but excellent, details for effect - no incongruous plastic windows and doors here.

Lavender Cottage dates back to the 15th century. In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

A parish notice board has been erected in the pillared garden of the next door cottage.

The village experienced serious flooding in 1967 – flooding is always a threat, and cottagers use flood boards at their front doors.

The thatched cottage next to it has gone also, although bits have been retained as a garden wall.

Much of the old village with its rows and terraces of small flint cottages survives amid the sprawl.

the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages

Its winding streets and lanes are lined with slate-roofed stone cottages, some colour-washed, their gardens stuffed tight with exotic plants and palms.