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The picturesque rooflines of the cottages in Staithes, clustered on the cliff side, have always enchanted visitors.

Near it is Church Cottage, where Kenneth Grahame lived in the 1920s.

This thatched cottage sits at the northern end of the village and was once a pub whose custom came from those travelling to and from Shropshire.

This traditional timber-framed cottage has been extended to the right with a small dairy. The long-straw roof has an attractive patterned border and ridge.

Today, instead of being a hospital, it is now known as Bakewell Cottage Nursing Home.

Nearby are rows of pretty cottages and ancient, timber-framed buildings with walls of wattle and daub.

Granite cottages and walled gardens line this quiet lane leading invitingly to the church tower beyond. A lucky wee lad on a granite step has managed to get into the picture.

This view shows Church Street, with St Mary's church on the left, the 16th-century timber-framed Trinity Guildhall in the foreground, and a charming plastered and thatched cottage in between.

The Cottage, glimpsed behind the tree, stands beside Lower Walditch Road.

The little habitation has some of the loveliest cottages and best-tended gardens in the county.

These cottages are built from local limestone quarried at Chudleigh Rock and the adjacent Palace Quarry, now closed.

Taken from Lock 43 looking towards Devizes, this photograph shows Lock 44 and a cottage, and also one of the pounds — a pound is an area for the storage of water.

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 main part of Dullingham village lies along the southern edge of the grounds of the early 18th-century Dullingham House, hence the picturesque thatched estate cottages.

These cottages were at the lower end of St Andrew Street. They remained until the middle of the 20th century, when they made way for council housing.

These cottages were at the lower end of St Andrew Street. They remained until the middle of the 29th century when they made way for council housing.

He described Wenlock as an 'ancient little town . . . with no great din of vehicles . . . a dozen 'publics' (pubs), with tidy whitewashed cottages . . . and little girls bobbing curtsies in the street

Seen from the road bridge, its balustrades recently brutalised by the Oxfordshire County Engineer, the lock, rebuilt in 1922, is little changed, although the Victorian former lock-keeper's cottage is

This fine row of early 17th-century weavers' cottages is now owned by the National Trust.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

A row of cottages with weather-boarding and a thatched roof faces the parish church.

Recently renewed, the thatch on this row of cottages is exquisitely neat and tidy. Thatch is not a common roofing material in these areas; stone or slate tiles are much more usual.

Many of these old cottages remain.

Thatched cottages (right) stand between Woolbridge Manor and the River Frome, looking upstream from the five mediaeval arches of Wool Bridge.