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It is easy to understand why this quarter of South Cerney, with its squat stone cottages ranged along the banks of the River Churn, are often photographed by day trippers.

The thatched cottage on the right has an early AA metal sign, giving mileages to local villages. The next building down had been Goymour's the butchers until 1950.

Most cottages here were built in the century from 1750, and accommodated coal miners. Other trades here included spinning and weaving.

The tall building behind the hip-roofed thatched cottage is a water tower, which has since been demolished. The general stores and fish and chip shop were owned by D A Chatters.

Built in 1870 to replace the earlier Wilbraham almshouses, these delightful cottages are said to stand on a site originally used for a leper hospital founded here in the 13th century.

Kineton has several attractive cottages, some of them with the distinctive chequered brickwork seen in those on the right of this photograph.

The cottage has acquired new windows and a coat of paint on the chimney stack since this photograph was taken, but remains otherwise unchanged.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.

Rows of neat cottages line the road; not far away, though not visible here, is the timber-framed St Mary's House.

Note the pram in the front garden, and the picturesque stone cottages. The bus stop on the left is a reminder of the urgent need for public transport in rural areas.

Once just a hamlet of fishermen's cottages, Budleigh grew as a town and watering place in the first half of the 19th century, when a number of well-heeled society figures took up residence.

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences. The original manor house, The Burystead, is late Elizabethan.

He is next to Church End Cottages, which are timber-framed with hipped tiled roofs. The popular Bucks Head pub is on the right.

The groynes on the beach indicate the ferocious tidal currents; in 1931 these currents seriously undermined a row of cottages up the road on the seaward side, that were subsequently

Modern detached houses have replaced some of the cottages on the far right.

A partially-thatched hut on the right of the picture, with a beautifully thatched cottage behind and another example of fine thatching on the building at the left show the ultimate use of nature's gift

Geddington, by-passed by the A43, is a delightful stone-cottaged backwater. Here the photographer looks south-east towards the church of St Mary Magdalene.

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.

It expanded rapidly after the Metropolitan Railway arrived at Chesham in 1889, indeed Star Cottage, the second house from the left, is dated 1890.

On the right is Old Forge Cottage, which adjoined the blacksmith's shop.

Winding, hedge-bound lanes and low-built cottages thatched with wheat straw were typical of Inskip, Treales, Wharles and other Fylde villages.

The Kent-Sussex border divides the village in two, but this area, the older part with tile-hung cottages clustered around a triangular green, is in Kent.

Rose Cottage (right) is therefore one of the few buildings in the area to predate the Industrial Revolution - it has recently been restored.