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The steep incline of Hill's tramroad ended just beyond it, and the tramroad continued behind the white wharfinger's cottage before crossing the canal.

This picture shows the village post office, delightfully housed in a picturesque thatched cottage. Most of Milton Malsor's buildings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

Islip remains a small village, with mostly stone cottages and houses. This view looks through the 1903 lychgate towards the crocketted spire of the 15th-century parish church.

Although since this view was taken the lock, the footbridge, and the lock-keeper's cottage have all been rebuilt, it is still a tranquil stretch; the steam launch entering the lock may be similar to the

This is a very attractive village, with a narrow street and thatched cottages. The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard.

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

On the road to Market Harborough, Desborough is a small town with various ironstone cottages and inns.

This is a classic English village setting, with rows of cottages overlooking a green and an old red telephone box.

Havelock Street is a terrace of Victorian artisan cottages, while Station Road remains the principal shopping street. The Co-op is still the Co-op but with a less attractive modern shopfront.

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

The Buck Inn on the corner consists of three cottages joined into one. The name comes from a family called Buck who once lived in the property.

The rather unusual construction of the front part of this old cottage, which stands beside the slope leading up to the church, is not entirely apparent from this picture, which groups it with an adjacent

It remains one of the leafier suburbs, though in 1936 the city council destroyed much of its appeal by demolishing the lovely old cottages which clustered round the green.

Some picturesque cottages were destroyed to widen these roads and create the roundabout, which now dominates the view.

The charming cottages on the left have either been demolished or modernised out of recognition.

Congested with cottages, whitewashed yards and washing lines, they were the home ground of the working population of the town. Most of them were severely damaged by bombing in the war.

Many of the people who worked in the mills or mines lived in dilapidated cottages hidden behind the imposing three-storey buildings on the main street.

A neat public toilet block is on the left, built in a Cotswold cottage style to harmonise with the street scene.

Concealed from view is its 15th-century traceried window, but the 176-foot tower of the 14th-century church of St Mary's soars as a landmark above the surrounding cottages.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Behind the chestnut tree in the village square, once known as Waterloo Square, the shops were originally a small row of cottages, which were apparently used as a quartermaster's stores and to billet soldiers

Many hikers have strolled into this pretty village to see its cliffs and cottages.

The long village High Street running down from the ridge overlooking the Weald and the 13th-century church of St Peter is lined with picturesque tile-hung cottages.