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The old post office, dated 1672, is now a residential cottage, but the Old Smithy, over to the right, is open as a needlework gallery.

Two of the nearest white cottages have gone, but essentially the scene is little changed today. The curious tall thin building behind the telegraph pole is the 1872 Loyal Gaskill Lodge of Oddfellows.

Eaves Hall, next to the village, is now a country club for the Civil Service Motoring Association.The cottages on the left were a Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.

Each cottage comprises two dwellings, with a central door and a tiny hall. The lane curves gently down towards the ornamental lake at the foot of the hill. CORFE CASTLE, From the Church

The church was built on the site of the former coastguards' cottages; it was built in two stages - the first was consecrated in 1908 and the second in 1915 - a great deal of stone used for its construction

Looking east with terrace houses on the left, then a thatched cottage and a 19th-century house with an Ionic porch.

The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers.

This view was taken north-eastwards along Marine Parade, below Langmoor Gardens (left), to the Bay Hotel, 1830-built Madeira Cottages and Cobb Gate Jetty (centre).

The streets and lanes here present a delightful medley of building styles, with their half-timbered houses and steep-roofed stone cottages.

It fell into serious decay and was finally demolished in 1988, although its mill cottage survives as offices.

Looking east back downhill from the junction with Bowstridge Lane, the gable on the right is the remnant of a cottage demolished to improve visibility from the lane.

Here we look east from the bridge over the Misbourne along the backs of Manor Farmyard, now houses, the Red Lion pub and cottages beyond, a view now somewhat obscured by stables to one of the converted

The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there is a modern bungalow just to the right of it.

A great storm in the 1930s washed away some of the cottages that stood on the seaward side of this road.

Cottages in the village date from 1845; just to the right was the old Forge Mill. The Cock Inn is still in business, but the old village hall behind is long gone.

Quarrymen and their families must have occupied a high proportion of the cottages, working to fulfil the 18th- and 19th-century demand for slate both as a roofing material, and for graveyard

The well-kept towpath and the sympathetic cottage extension we see here blend into the countryside, and in 1960 were prepared for the resurrection of Hertfordshire's waterways.

Mount Noddy Cottage, nestling in the trees, was demolished in the 1950s.

There is a lovely group of cottages near the church, which date from the 17th century. The church has many riches, including a hammerbeam roof.

Here we see the By Brook flowing placidly past the rows of exquisite cottages, with their steep stone-slated roofs and dormers. A man sits on the bank with his granddaughter enjoying the tranquillity.

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

Rock Cottage, on the left, has had its render removed to expose the thin-bedded ancient Devonian sandstone rubble used for building on Exmoor and the western hills of Somerset.