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Like so many little Kent villages, with its cottages and houses clustered around a small green, Saltwood epitomises the rural atmosphere of the county at the turn of the last century.

The suspension bridge across to a house on the Island is still a feature of Newquay's Towan Beach. Note the bathing machines down by the water's edge on the extreme left.

They are being loaded from the oast house onto a lorry to be taken to market.

The house, now a museum, has changed little over the years and includes her writing table, as well as a collection of documents and letters.

Trade with Holland led to the building of many of the Dutch-style gabled houses that line the Strand.

The house looks much the same today, though it is now a conference centre. The bridge in the foreground is 18th century, built of brick rubble with a moulded parapet.

Athelhampton Hall is one of two grand houses near to the village of Puddletown, both lived in at various times by members of the Martyn family.

We can see tents in the distant field, and although there has been more housing since, the beach and its surf remain as magnificent as ever.

The house, now a museum, has changed little over the years and includes her writing table, as well as a collection of documents and letters.

An old building dating from 1730 is still known as the barracks, a name said to derive from its use as a lodging house for lead miners.

Note the house under construction on the right-hand side.

Wetheral congregates around its spa- cious triangular village green, which is overlooked by a number of fine, large 18th-century houses.

The exuberantly decorated York House (right) was built in 1893 in a Victorian attempt to look Elizabethan - even down (or up) to the chimneys.

Sydling's manor house, a possession of Winchester College, was leased to Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, in 1590.

The old Litany Desk commemorates parishioner Henry Nicholson, 'a chief musician in this House of God'.

The 16th-century thatched Plough public house with its low ceilings, exposed beams and stone flagged floor is still open today, but the post office, across the road, has closed since the time this photograph

At the east end, Lower Close leads into Hook's Walk with its excellent brick and flint-built houses, many rendered and colour-washed. It leads to the curiously-named Gooseberry Garden Walk.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

This serene view belies the fact that this was a busy industrial area until 1914, accommodating cloth mills, dye houses, a foundry and gas works.

This old Round House was built for the use of the canal lengthmen, who maintained certain sections, or lengths, of the Thames and Severn canal, which started near Inglesham, close to Lechlade.

A No 147 bus waits outside The Eagle Tavern on the right, and on the left a fingerpost beyond the Imperial Forces public house points towards the public lavatories in Riverside Gardens.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms, close to an area of open heathland.

Missing, of course, is the enormous Cater House - though the crane indicates that it was already more than a twinkle in the architect's eye.

Scott owned several houses in the city: the most famous was 39 Castle Street, where he wrote many of the Waverley novels.