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This view gives a good idea of the village centre: the former inn, The Ragged Staff, is by the telephone pole, and the thatched cottage opposite, The Ovens, is dated 1699.

In this view there is an early 19th-century Regency style rendered cottage with a verandah and, nearer the camera, a terrace of late 18th-century brick cottages with Tudor Estate styles in the distance

The house on the left with its whitewashed tile-hangings is Old Forge Cottage, which apparently dates from 1321 - it was for sale at the time of the photograph.

A small row of sandstone cottages were built at the time of the birth of the railway in Salthouse Road; these cottages still stand today, and represent some of the earliest residencies built in the emerging

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

Here we see the church path leading up to it, with 16th-century cottages on the left and Dorset House on the right.

The whitewashed cottage is Craven Cottage and is little changed today, but 1960s housing has appeared where the tall trees previously grew on the right.

This tranquil group of cottages lies alongside what was the main road from London to Huntingdon, and probably takes its name from a corruption of 'High Street'.

The stone cottages built for mill workers look picturesque, but in days gone by conditions were by no means luxurious.

The cottages were threatened with destruction shortly after this photograph was taken, but popular opinion prevailed and they were saved.

This pair of 19th-century cottages with their bracket door hoods survive: the one on the right was the post office with a shop in the garden, which has now been demolished.

This view looks north along the High Street, which curves to the right; the cottages beyond Merstham Garage are in Quality Street.

The chequered brick and weather boarded cottage (right) is Barclays Bank; it opened in 1910 in what was then the front room of a cottage. The bank was to stay here until 1999.

Opposite, the stone and slate cottages are Trefoil and Corner Cottage, on Stocks Corner, where Duck Street turns towards Seatown hamlet, beside Lyme Bay.

A ruined cottage is now only a place for lambs and the inquisitive to investigate.

A line of large and small cottages face onto the churchyard, which has many old yew trees.

This view looks north-east along the A283 past its junction with Church Lane on the right in front of White Horse Cottage, whose chimney stack is here covered in creeper.

This group of thatched cottages by the millstream are still recognisable today.

The Gate was originally one of a pair of cottages built by Samuel Legerton in 1830; the northernmost of the cottages was converted to the public house around 1843.

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin (centre) with its lofty belfry tower stands beside Granary Cottage and Long House (left) that were attached to Manor Farm.

This cottage stands in an idyllic setting by the River Anton just ouside the village. Tasker's bridge bears the date 1843.

The cottage with the bay window at the right-hand end of the bridge is St John's, or Bridge Cottage, dating from 1460; it was once used as a courtroom pending the completion of the new town hall.

In 1879 the only development along Vann Road was two chapels: an Ebenezer Chapel built in 1852 just beyond the slate-hung Hazel Cottage, on the right, and a Methodist one, whose roof slope and gable

About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.