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This curious old slate-hung house next to the church dates from 1638.

A few houses and chalets line the clifftop to ensure the best views.

Terraces of miners' houses form a triangle in Fore, Scorrier and Telegraph Streets. Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser.

To the front of the view is the lifeboat house and boat park. The lifeboat was once crewed by women when the men of the crew were caught in a squall.

The whole harbour and dockland area has been the subject of a major housing development over the past few years, leaving photographs such as this one as the only evidence of what was there before.

Two buildings further down is the Brotherhood House. Next to Blindell's is the Croft.

The flimsy houses were clearly not designed to face the water, for the windows are few and diminutive.The crumbling facades bring a clear impression of neglect and poverty.

The houses nearest us were once commercial premises—a hardware store and a tailor's. To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair.

The building occupied by Routley's Stores is Poole House, once the home of Thomas Poole.

Right of the Westminster Bank stands Manor Court, which was built as a merchant's house in 1550; in the upper rooms, some ceilings still retain their fine plasterwork decoration.

Across the road large trees obscure the front of Montague House, whilst on this side, pollard trees mark the edge of the road and in the foreground a thick green hedge can be seen in front of The Elms

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

Houses with terraced gardens climb the steep sided Golden Valley and overlook some of the most lovely scenery in the region.

The original house was built for the 2nd Earl of Chesterfield to a design by Inigo Jones.

Named for the mulberry tree that grew in the garden, this 18th-century Kentish hall house in the High Street was once at the centre of Snodland, where the market cross stood outside The Red Lion inn opposite

the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages and old houses

It has a thriving local economy, and the modern Elgin Mall shopping centre and new housing estates have grown up in recent decades.

The Chantry Café probably occupies the site of the priest's house.

The annexe to the left of the belfry is a 17th-century priest's house, which later became a school.

Though still fairly well-endowed with trees in the 1950s, the slopes were vanishing under the housing developments of Tarpots and New Thundersley.

Opposite the cottages we can just see the sign of the Load of Mischief public house.

Behind the yew is Mildmay House; it dates back to about 1700, and was once the rectory. St Mary's Church was designed by Waterhouse, who also designed the Natural History Museum in London.

The original house does not survive, but the great arched gateway does.

Today the allotments on the near side of Uplands School have been replaced by housing, as have parts of Rodborough Fields in the middle distance.