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Some of the buildings on the tip of Sandbanks are coastguard cottages.

The lock keeper's neat and tidy cottage garden is noteworthy, as is the view across the water meadows to the steeple of St Lawrence's church.

With the faded lime wash and rough appearance of the cottages and walls, this scene has an almost Mediterranean air about it.

As fishing declined, the fishermen's wives sold teas from their cottages. The shops survive, and the fishing stores and salting sheds to the left are now craft workshops.

The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing. In the distance is the Manor House, once home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the famous landscape gardener.

It is heartening to think that this view has changed only in the growth of the background trees over 40 years and the removal of thatch from one of the 18th-century cottages.

Cottages were to the left and the operational part of the building was at the seaward end. Further south, on the beach, there was an older thatched Watch House which became Old Watchouse Cafe.

So have the patch of grass, the thatched cottage and the trees. The Royal Oak is still there, though it looks very different now.

This photograph shows the town clinging to the sea with some lines of very small cottages. The mound is man-made, and was very likely first topped by a Norman fort.

A very rural Post Office - part cottage, part shop. Note the Victorian post box and the arrow for the Telegraph Office.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Many of the fishermen's cottages looking towards the harbour were built in three storeys, the ground floor being used for storing and salting their catches of fish.

This photograph shows the village centre with its rows of pretty cottages.

In the earlier one, looking north up High Street, The Greyhound Inn is still an 18th-century colourwashed building, while Burgis' shop on the left corner and the dor- mered cottages beyond are

Perhaps this cottage still survives but I am sure there will no longer be calves, pigs and chickens in the yard.

Of the cottages shown here only the one in the foreground still survives.

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

Many of its stone cottages were built to house the mill's workers, which still stands on the edge of the town.

Viewed from above the River Roeburn, the scene overlooks the roofs of the village cottages, most of which were put up during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Many were given a fashionable facelift in Victorian times with additions such as the bay fronts to the cottages on the right.

Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

The village rose to prosperity as a cloth making centre, but when the Industrial Revolution shifted production from weavers' cottages to industrial factories, Uley's fortunes went into decline.

Lobster pots dry in the fresh air outside one of the tiny cottages that cling to the dramatic cliff swooping down to the sea. Coastal erosion is a constant peril around Runswick bay.

Thatch and pantile-roofed cottages like these are timber-framed with clay lump infill.