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It is looking sadly isolated, especially now that the backdrop of cottages has disappeared.

It is flanked on the right by a row of very old stone cottages that appear to lean to one side but nevertheless stand to this day - no doubt a testament to those who built them!

At the north end of the High Street stands the 15th-century market cross, with Malmesbury Cottage Hospital and the abbey in the background.

Many cottages carry plaques with the 'P' of Lord Pirbright, the village developer and estate owner. The trees, the bench and the post office remain.

The Pest House was built c1622 by the churchwardens and overseers as a cottage for the poor on land given by Julian Smith, a linen draper.

However, surviving almost unchanged are the Mill House and on the right Mill Cottage, built in 1851.

(Vicky Higgin) Clarence Cottage to the right is 18th-century, but Adelaide Cottage to the left is early 19th-century; at one time the two were adjoined as a common house.

The cottage on the right has been replaced by a stone bungalow further back from the roadside.

A commemorative tablet is on the wall of Bronte Cottage, the first house on the right next to the old road bridge.

Most of these cottages were built at the turn of the 19th century, when stops at Robinson's Tea Rooms were part of the popular wagonette trips.

Unchanging, though, is St Botolph's Church near the River Gwash as it watches over the limestone cottages.

Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything

Hidden from this view until 1939 by Church Alley's cottages, the superb Market Hall was built in 1682 by Sir William Drake of Shardeloes.

The windows on the left, open wide in the glorious hot summer, are at Myrtle Cottage and Penrith House.

The village is a pleasing mixture of brick and flint thatched cottages.

Gently winds the lane down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of whitewashed cottages and bright spring flowers.

Here we see several more of the local ironstone cottages with their well kept and productive gardens. There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

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.

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford; it possesses an assortment of Tudor brick and timbered cottages

The cottages on the left were a Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.

Uphill from the bridge are stone cottages. The Black Bull Inn became the Youth Hostel, and the Dog Inn is now the Hark to Bounty.

The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839. Commerce House was Kingsbury's the builders, established in 1730.

The area in front of a church was often treated as a public place, here, two boys lead a pony to drink at the pump and atering trough beside a traditional stone cottage.