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The old post office looked across the green towards it - indeed, the cottage next to the shop is called Windmill Cottage (the right-hand half is Forge Cottage).

A study of some attractive old cottages at East Mill. A little girl is staring suspiciously at the camera. Note the unmetalled surface of the road.

The house at the end of the 17th-century cottages gives onto Rook Lane. It is now almost hidden from view behind tall hedging and trees with a very secret garden.

Opposite is the Old Cottage (now called the Pound Cottage).

The girls are playing outside the Farmery (centre), Japonica Cottage, and Lilac Cottage (right).

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Here we see the type of tile-hung and weatherboarded cottages which abound in this area. The white fencing around the cottage gardens is very typical of villages in the Weald of Kent.

Until 1939 the buildings on the right faced Church Alley and the backs of ranges of cottages a few feet away, demolished in that year.

One of the most picturesque - and most photographed - rows of cottages in the Cotswolds, Arlington Row's first function was a barn.

The small post office occupies a late 19th-century cottage. Next door is a small thatched cottage similar to a number of others in the village.

The small cottage has a longstraw thatched roof with a swept ridge. It is unaltered, and has no dormer windows.

Many of the houses have attractive pargeting, including Butlers Cottage on the right of the picture. The leaning timber-framed house on the left is known as Tudor Cottage.

A fair number of old cottages still line the earliest village streets around the church, but elsewhere any surviving cottage tends to be islanded in a sea of modernity.

Described by Edward Thomas the poet, as 'hunching soft' in Lutcombe Bottom, this idyllic scene below Stoner was lost to us in the late forties with the demolition of the cottage.

Seaforth Cottage, a neat and symmetrical Georgian Cottage ornée with rustic porch, would not look out of place on Marine Parade in Lyme Regis.

Some of the sandstone cottages in the village of Swainby are still known as the Miners' Cottages, remembering the village's brief spell as an iron mining centre during the 19th century.

40 years later and further back on the Wey Lane junction, we see the far cottage, No 23, on the right, has been largely rebuilt.

The first building past the row of cottages on the left was the post office and a beer house many years ago. In the 1960s it was a village shop, but that now has closed.

The bakehouse/ granary is seen here as it was after its conversion to cottages in 1812, and before the serving of the 1944 dereliction order.

These cottages at Thatch End, Baslow, standing near the bridge in photograph No 5217 above, are a Peak District rarity.

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

The thatched cottages were erected in 1828 by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland for his retired estate workers. Many of the cottages have survived, retaining their original charm.

Beside the quiet mill-pond at Flatford Mill stands Willy Lott's Cottage, instantly recognisable as the setting for Constable's famous painting 'The Hay Wain'.

Behind the Anchor Inn (left) are Seatown Farm and the black-painted coastguard cottages (centre), with veranda- fronted Seatown Cottage to the north (right).