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Set below Pen y Corddyn Mawr, a Romano-British hill fort, these houses and cottages are a more recent addition to the ancient landscape of the North Wales coast.

Luccombe remains a quiet backwater with traditional thatched and tiled cottages and walks over the surrounding Holnicote Estate.

This range of 18th- and 19th-century cottages, some thatched, look across to the parish church, whose churchyard wall can be seen on the left. The village hardware shop is now the Alfresco Restaurant.

There are many charming cottages in the vicinity of Lyndhurst, some of them probably dating back to the 13th century when the harsh forest laws were relaxed somewhat during the reign of Henry III.

Note the neat, gritstone cottages with their slabbed, gritstone roofs.

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

The typical white-weatherboarded and tile-roofed cottages of the region characterise this ridge-top hamlet north- east of Wadhurst.

This tumble-down cottage had probably changed little since those stirring times.

Cottages change names from time to time but the scene remains much the same.

Children sit astride the Beer Brook outside the vast, sprawling Shepherd's Cottage.

These low, half-timbered and thatched cottages at Repton probably date from Tudor times; they give an indication of the antiquity of this sleepy township, which lies eight miles to the south-west of Derby

The open green and the large pond beyond the trees are surrounded by houses and cottages. The steps up to the village pump were built so that water churns could be filled from a cart.

The building on the left is the appropriately named Westend Cottage which was built in the 17th century.

The Cottage, glimpsed behind the tree, stands beside Lower Walditch Road.

This view shows Church Street, with St Mary's church on the left, the 16th-century timber-framed Trinity Guildhall in the foreground, and a charming plastered and thatched cottage in between.

Granite cottages and walled gardens line this quiet lane leading invitingly to the church tower beyond. A lucky wee lad on a granite step has managed to get into the picture.

Despite post Second World War development, several thatched cottages have survived to the present day.

Thatched cottages abound in this view; at this time, Trumpington was a village separate from Cambridge.

Recently renewed, the thatch on this row of cottages is exquisitely neat and tidy. Thatch is not a common roofing material in these areas; stone or slate tiles are much more usual.

New housing has been built in the village, but this part, South End Cottages on Back Street, is just as it was in 1955.

These charming cottages still stand, altered but recognisable and now holiday homes.

The setting of Cadgwith is superb, with its thatched fishermen's cottages looking straight down to the wide waters of the English Channel not far from the Lizard Point.

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.

These cottages are built from local limestone quarried at Chudleigh Rock and the adjacent Palace Quarry, now closed.