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Looking east from the western end of the village, we can see the road junction beside what has become a single Burwell Cottage (centre). Rectory Lane used to be called Duck Street.

All Saints' Church dominates the scene, and the only change is the removal of the smaller second cottage of Long Croft, left. It is now a drive for the adjacent gable-ended Rose Cottage.

The cottages in this idyllic scene by the River Ribble were at one time connected with a calico mill; they were later purchased and renovated by the Spread Eagle Hotel.

The sun is shining on another outstanding Hampshire village with some timeless timber-framed cottages and nicely cut hedges. The broadcaster Sir David Frost is rumoured to live here.

The buildings beside Sea Hill Lane are the Anchor Inn and Anchor Inn Cottage (left), Seatown House (centre) with its flag-pole, and thatched Seatown Farmhouse (right), which was known as Marsh's Farm.

Raikes Road had many thatched dwellings; as late as 1961, when alterations were afoot, one cottage proved to be a Fylde cruck-built cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century.

The gable-end (left) is thatched St Francis Cottage, and the brick, stone and tile cottages are Brookdale and No 5 (right).

Increasingly wooded these days, the valley also hides the old coastguard cottages and the replacement coastguard cottages. John Jefferson was the Victorian chief officer of the coastguard station.

The cottages on the left remain beyond the millpond; the row behind were built in 1667 and are now the Cheddar Toy and Model Museum.

Lime Cottage, jutting out near the end of the street, is dated 1904. On the near right is Tenby Cottage, next to the old post

The cottages to the right were at this time home and shop to H Woolley, a saddler, as they had been since around 1900.

In the distance are Pump Cottage and Lavender Cottage, both built in mock-Tudor style.

Around the green are the older thatched cottages and (right) one partly thatched and slated farmhouse that has been extended on either side into two cottage rows.

The farmhouses and cottages all have steps down to the street because the old unmetalled road to Cambridge had been gradually lowered by use.

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

The view is northwards to the Angel Inn (centre), still with its thatched roof, and Weaver's Cottage (centre right).

The cottages on the left were demolished sometime in the 1960s. In the one that was double-fronted lived Mr and Mrs Terry.

Cottages, the Grapes Inn, the church and the school are facing or clustered round the green. An old resident, Mrs Lancaster, had a fund of memories. She was a Rose Queen one Club Day.

Of the long terrace of 17th-century cottages on the right, only the former Anchor Inn remains, dated 1637 and now a private house.

The central cottage has now gone, but there is a cafe instead.

Nos 1, 2 and 3 Church Cottages on the right were once a single 17th century timber-framed house whose original brick stack with three chimney shafts can be seen on the gable.

In the background on the left stands Brooklyn; then, with two thatched eyebrow gables, comes Anchor Cottage, previously the Anchor public house.

The post mill, which stood to the north of the cottage, was built in 1829 and demolished in 1912. Mill Cottage and the converted barn called Granary House are all that remain of the mill complex.

Fronting the road, beyond the outbuildings in the two previous views, is the 17th-century cottage where the zoo park started some seventy years ago; its outbuildings became the gift shop