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Situated under the downs, very close to the Long Man, the former manorial grange at Wilmington had, by the 13th century, developed into a small priory.

Most of the cottages were built in stone from the Greenmoor Quarry. The left foreground cottage has gone, but the small house (right) remains, which is connected to a converted barn and stable.

A leisurely country scene; note the lawn set out for games, and the swinging seat under its canopy.

These model estate cottages were built by the Berners family for their agricultural labourers and artisans.

These model estate cottages were built by the Berners family for their agricultural labourers and artisans.

The bottom green, seen here, was at one time a pond where ducks and geese would wander freely. It was said to have been drained in 1841 by a Mr George Brown.

Dunmow`s post office has been in the red brick building (centre) since 1939. A barn, used for meetings by local dissenters, once stood on the site.

This view looks east along the main street.

The two villages of Offord Darcy and Offord Cluny run into each other. Facing a bend in the road is the Horseshoe Inn; the date 1626 is carved on the jettied cross wing of the inn.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

This view looks up Olde Barn Passage past Brookes Court. In the distance is Richman's and St Mary's Street.

It is rare in Suffolk to find a spire before the Victorian period. This one is 17th-century. The window of the Cockfield chapel is blocked by later monuments.

A Benedictine priory belonging to Westminster Abbey was established here to the north of Sudbury c1130. This is the 15th-century chapel with nave and chancel in one.

Apparently the horse remained a feature for some years, until building on this land swept it away. The Old Barn is opposite the row of terraced cottages. To the left is Kilburn Yard.

The mill complex was owned by Reuben Rackham, who was a maltster, water and steam miller and a coal merchant.

Until the early years of the 20th century, a thriving brewery, which was run by the Brown family, stood on the green.

Polgooth grew up in the 19th century as a mining village to the south west of St Austell.

Flendyshe House, facing the small green, is an early 17th-century house remodelled in 1807. On the green is the war memorial.

Denmead's local shop advertises Saxa salt in the window. The original village, to the north-east, was known as Barn Green.

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

Initially a hamlet, the village of Barns Green dates from the Middle Ages, but grew rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries following the opening of the Mid-Sussex railway line.

This photograph was taken from the church tower looking north towards the main street. The post mill, which stood to the north of the cottage, was built in 1829 and demolished in 1912.

This tapering green with the church at the top is very similar to the green at Long Melford, although it is smaller.

This hamlet is to the south of Boxford and separated from it since 1975 by the bypass.