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The photograph was taken from Rake Corner, where there is a delightful thatched cottage.

The surrounding cottages were built for the tannery workers by the 19th-century owner, James Hayman.

This village, described in the 19th century as 'hamlet of beggarly cottages', was built around a castle. All that remains is an earth mound.

Before that, a pub called the Horseshoes had stood nearby, on the site of Hart Cottages.

The cottage (left) of veteran soldier William Lawrence has since been demolished. The Bankes Arms, where the proprietor was Richard Clark, is now run by the Lightbown family.

Not surprisingly this little cottage has since been demolished. It was in Farnworth that the Farnworth and Appleton Football Club was formed in 1873.

Delightful dark brown granite cottages hug the narrow choked streets of Mousehole (pronounced Mouzel).

The building on the left, now demolished and replaced by St Thomas's Church Hall, was a cottage for the tannery workers.

Some of the buildings on the tip of Sandbanks are coastguard cottages.

The lock keeper's neat and tidy cottage garden is noteworthy, as is the view across the water meadows to the steeple of St Lawrence's church.

It is heartening to think that this view has changed only in the growth of the background trees over 40 years and the removal of thatch from one of the 18th-century cottages.

With the faded lime wash and rough appearance of the cottages and walls, this scene has an almost Mediterranean air about it.

The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing. In the distance is the Manor House, once home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the famous landscape gardener.

As fishing declined, the fishermen's wives sold teas from their cottages. The shops survive, and the fishing stores and salting sheds to the left are now craft workshops.

The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

The new Old Neptune was a conversion of two cottages; at the time of this photograph it was a local brewer's Tomson & Wotton's house.

The building was perhaps thatched originally, but is now pantiled, with sloping dormer windows like the cottage next to it. On the bench a villager watches the photographer.

Today the pub has been converted into cottages, but the name survives, because they are called Cross Keys Mews.

In the distance is the Green, an industrial area with tanneries and a brewery as well as cottages.

Another view of Reeth, looking down across the gritstone-slabbed roofs of the cottages of the village, which was another important lead mining centre during the 18th and 19th centuries.

As the name of this cottage suggests, Worstead was one of the main centres of the weaving industry, which made Norfolk one of the wealthiest regions of medieval England.

A good mile to the west of Littlebredy is the downland village of Litton Cheney, which contains a variety of stone-built thatched cottages and a lovely old church.

Its cottages are some of the prettiest in Worcestershire.

Surviving 17th-century cottages (centre) stand opposite White Lodge Gate which is the main entrance into the grounds of Lulworth Castle.