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Some were new additions to the countryside, while the majority was converted from former inns and cottages.

It is built on a dog-leg construction and lined with half-timbered and weatherboarded cottages.

These picturesque and simple weatherboarded cottages were once among many in the old village; they were originally built for workers on the Nonsuch estate.

Even innocent-looking cottages like this were often involved in the smuggling trade.

After taking a tram or trolley-bus ride to Wilford Bridge, a walk to Clifton would perhaps be followed by tea at a cottage on the Green.

The mill lurks behind the attractive cottages in the foreground.

Numerous fishing boats are moored around the harbour, overlooked by a terrace of picturesque cottages.

This picture of it was taken in West Mills, where the tower and west door suddenly loom large between tightly packed houses and cottages.

Little Stour, whose waters flow peacefully under the bridge on the left, the small general stores and post office on the right served this little hidden village with its 18th- and 19th-century brick cottages

Its tiny towerless church stands sentinel over the cottages, gardens and meadows as it has done for some eight hundred years.

In 1863 the boxer Bob Fitzsimmons was born in a thatched cottage at the top of Wendron Street.

This wonderful range of 17th-century thatched timber-framed cottages sweeps down the Tring Road towards the clock tower.

Nestling in the hillside below the Promenade, we see, to the right, The Cottage (or 'Teddy's Nook') and, to the left, The Spa.

Cottages cluster for shelter around the small square.

This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and several ivy-clad cottages

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

In this panoramic view of the Golden Valley, the mill chimneys are visible in the background; the workers' cottages are on the lower slopes of the hill, and the canal winds its way along the valley

The wooded slopes in the background are on the Staffordshire bank of the Dove, and rise to Air Cottage on the top of the hill opposite.

Using local timber from the woodlands along the estuary, the shipbuilders of Bucklers Hard, who would have lived in these cottages, built at least three of the ships which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar

This fine brick-built village is one of north Dorset's loveliest, its cottage gardens a delight all year round. Even with modern day traffic it seems a place lost in time.

In 1955 the village also boasted a number of 18th-century cottages.

Here a cottage squats just a few feet above the level of the waters. It is not surprising that inhabitants were regularly displaced from their homes.

At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked there

We are looking towards Pond Cottages. The main road looks empty and quiet but in March 1928 there were several instances of speeding.