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Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic Italian restaurant named Frascati, and with a bus stop immediately outside what was then Highway Cottage

The village has rows of sandstone cottages and a number of farms. It was self-sufficient in the 19th century.

Two bus stops are opposite each other: one is outside the shop advertising Zebrite, a black lead used to clean iron grates and the ranges found in most cottages.

Today many of the cottages are holiday homes, and consequently Stanton can feel as though the door has been locked while the inhabitants are away.

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

Forsters Cottage and a memorial commemorate William Edward Forster MP (1818-86), born in the village, who was the architect of the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

Houses and cottages, many single-storey and built of local stone with slate roofs, line the long, winding main street.

But the site of the old bridge and the cottages in this photograph can still be seen nearby.

At the southern limits of the county, close by Diss, this delightful village of knapped flint cottages sits in wooded countryside in the valley of the Little Ouse.

This pastoral scene posed by the photographer is charming; it shows the steep village street leading to the cottages grouped around the stocks, church and inn.

Most of the cottages and small holdings were originally built for mine workers.

It was converted into cottages in 1931, when the thatch was replaced by tiles. The three-storey building in the centre used to be the Valiant Soldier Inn and was built about 1670.

This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

The cottages and mature trees are typical of Bolton-by-Bowland. This beautiful village, once famous for its skilled bowmen, stands on the edge of Bowland Forest.

On the corner of the green is the 18th-century Swan Inn (centre right), while nearer is a pair of Victorian cottages dated 1870.

Behind the cottages on the left towers the gable of the Methodist church, a grandiose building of 1878 where my great-grandfather was a lay preacher and leading light in the village's thriving

Further up the High Street, the whitewashed cottage on the right is called Kinver Edge.

The view is eastwards from the village green to a range of 18th-century thatched cottages (right).

This building was built as three cottages in 1637; it was converted into almshouses before becoming a pub in 1945. It is no longer called The Cheshire Cat, which is sad.

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front. This building appears in both pictures.

St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it