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A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan church.

The picture shows Downland cottages with flint walling and tiled roofs. The village is now cut in two by a very busy dual carriageway, and is the location of the University of Sussex campus.

Seatown hamlet consists of the Anchor Inn (seawards) and a coastguard station, comprising a watch house (facing the sea), Guard House Cottages, and the boathouse.

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Even here the developers are busy: the cleared space beyond Laburnum Cottage is soon to be increased in size with the removal of Nos 50 and 51 Cross Street, opposite the Angel Hotel, at the junction

However, look a little closer and you can pick out a few subtle changes.The white cottage on the right of the High Street is now the premises of an estate agent, and the ivy which covers the house

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

Amongst these was a very old cruck-built Fylde cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century. Leckonby Hall is the most interesting historical building hereabouts.

Oliver Cromwell stayed here in 1657 with Sir Richard Onslow, with some of his retainers billeted at the 15th-century Cromwell Cottage.

The builder and undertaker's shop on the extreme right was on the corner of Church Road, and the frontage of the adjacent cottage is little altered.

Part of the Warter Priory Estate, these cottages were extended upwards and thatched in the 1930s.

The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers.

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

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

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Most of the village was owned by the Whitbread family, including these rows of 16th-century timber-framed cottages.

He founded the Thomas Hickman charity, which built almshouses; it is an active housing charity still, buying and refurbishing houses and cottages in the old town for rent.

The thatched cruck cottage, with its museum-piece petrol pump and the amazing interlocking of roofs, lead the eye inexorably to the needle-like spire, which crowns the pink granite tower of the church.

In its place stands a row of brick terraced cottages. In the distance, the thatched building with the brick chimney forms part of the original village school and the School House.

Sir Nicholas brought skilled weavers to his house at Stonyhurst to teach villagers textile weaving when times were hard, and he then supplied cottages with hand looms.

Dressed stone walls, bay windows on the cottages, a corner shop, two early television aerials and motor traffic indicate that times are changing.

Charcoal-making was a forest industry until the 1960s, and was carried out on sites within the forest.There were two brick works in the village.A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan

Listed buildings remaining in the town are the Rising Sun inn (a former village institute built in 1905), and a nearby row of miners' cottages.

This village was an enclave of Hertfordshire, being transferred to Buckinghamshire in 1832, and there are many good 16th and 17th century timber-framed farmhouses and cottages within the parish.