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This charming lane near the church has a concentration of thatched cottages. Further along is Jubilee Barn, the original tithe barn of the village.

Many of its cottages were built in the 17th century, and the Royal Oak is older, claiming a date of about 1502. A famous treat, which is still sold today, was Granny's Nettle Beer.

The cottages where the children are gathered disappeared in the last half of the 20th century, and so did the bell on the Victorian chapel.

Next to the towpath is a traditional riverside cottage with a brick parapet gable.

The shop, long since closed, is now a private dwelling called Long Cottage.

The more urban style of the three-storey shop contrasts with the cottagey Berkeley Cottage in the foreground.

But this 1950s view of Long Street shows some of the older, Georgian cottages at the top end of the village, where annual horse and sheep fairs were held until the late 1960s.

The opening on the left marked the entrance to Padgate Cottage Homes, built by the Board of Guardians in 1884 as an Industrial School. From 1930 to 1954 it served as a children's home.

The next three cottages, including the former post office, are dated 1770, but they may be older. At the end is the Museum in the former Victorian Reading Room.

Here we see their terraced cottages, with the characteristic outside stair to the first-floor door. Below were storerooms for nets and sails.

Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

The cramped grey stone cottages and shops seem in danger of toppling over each other.

The Cottage Hospital, now converted into private residences, is the last building on the left-hand side of this view, with, possibly, a motor ambulance pulling out of the drive.

The lock keeper's cottage (left of photograph) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile-hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

These two timber-framed houses were originally built for prosperous farmers; in Victorian times the houses were each subdivided into labourers' cottages for the Leconfield Estate.

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

The Gordon Road and Commonside areas of Ansdell still had white­washed fishermen's cottages.

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement.

This is now a private house called Rose Cottage; the building has been painted white, and is almost completely unrecognisable, with just its roofline remaining the same.

The building is now two private cottages. The road to the right leads to Callas Hill and Foxhill.

It is interesting to note that the brick cottages in the centre have a timber-framed gable end, revealing a much older origin than the brickwork suggests.