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Chaundlers, with multiple gables (left), now divided into cottages, is the oldest timber-framed building in Linton. One cottage has the remains of the 15th-century open hall.

However, popular history associates these Tudor cottages on the corner of Eldon Street with Cromwell's visit to Warrington in 1648 whilst pursuing the Scottish army.

Here we see Magpie Cottage, a fine 17th-century timber- framed thatched cottage with whitewashed infill panels, hence the name, presumably.

This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901).

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Before the arrival of the railway, Middleton One Row was aptly named; it consisted of just one row of Georgian cottages.

The weatherboarded cottages nearby are known as Black Lion Cottages. The two shops in the foreground display advertisements for Oxo, Lifeguard soap and Lamberts teas, and many other products.

On the left is the Literary and Scientific Institute (1888- 1937), next to which are three old cottages called Rock Gardens.

The lock-keepers' cottages served the flight on the section known as the Leicester Line. Top Lock cottage in particular has magnificent views of the rolling countryside.

The cottages on the right remain, but the right-hand one, Vine Cottage, has had its render removed and badly- proportioned stained-glass windows inserted.

On the left is Bwthyn Llewelyn (Llewelyn Cottage); its signboard says that it caters for the Cyclists' Touring Club, the National Union and the Clarion Clubs.

Only the central rump of this row of cottages survives today in the village, and is barely recognizable from the photograph.

Churchgate Cottage is the neat white building in the centre, but behind it near the lychgate we can see a roofless cottage, now at the end of the Old Albion Inn.

The thatched roof at the left-hand road junction belongs to Serjeant Bendlowes`s Cottage.

The Cottage, as it is known, was built on the site of three cottages by the owner of the adjacent house.

The buildings (right) include the Alcove Hotel, semi-detached Sunnybank, Library Cottage and Sundial Cottage (centre).

The gable-end (left) is thatched St Francis Cottage, and the brick, stone and tile cottages are Brookdale and No 5 (right).

Raikes Road had many thatched dwellings; as late as 1961, when alterations were afoot, one cottage proved to be a Fylde cruck-built cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century.

Increasingly wooded these days, the valley also hides the old coastguard cottages and the replacement coastguard cottages. John Jefferson was the Victorian chief officer of the coastguard station.

A group of children stand by a 19th-century cottage now called White Gates.

Looking east from the western end of the village, we can see the road junction beside what has become a single Burwell Cottage (centre). Rectory Lane used to be called Duck Street.

The pond has been filled in, but Rose Cottage, the 17th-century timber- framed thatched cottage remains. However, the thatched barn is now tiled.

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

Around the green are the older thatched cottages and (right) one partly thatched and slated farmhouse that has been extended on either side into two cottage rows.