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Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.

This path descends onto Thurstaston Sands alongside Shore Cottage.

Star Cottages (right of centre) are now Gemini Cottages.

The church lies behind a huddle of dilapidated cottages lining the Nunney Brook; here, wool was washed during the busy years of the cloth trade. Today the cottages are all restored.

The Globe started life around 1280 as a row of five cottages, possibly built to house masons working on the church. Three of the cottages were converted to become the pub in 1675.

In the foreground Old Page's Cottage is another of Maids Moreton's late timber-framed cottages, with thin timbers and a thatched roof.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

The Jolly Miller originally fronted the pavement in line with the cottages beyond.

A cottage on the left was once home to the blacksmith; his forge stood beyond the pub.

Nos 1 and 2 Church View Cottages were built in the 17th century. They are good examples of timber-framed houses with brick in-fill and casement windows.

The cottages were built between 1870 and 1872 under the direction of Sir John Guest's wife Charlotte, who was responsible for the many familiar estate cottages now to be found scattered across Poole.

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.

Pretty cottages still line Broadway Road.

This attractive cottage, with its Gothic window frames, is situated close to Minchinhampton Common, although it is much less easy to see this today, since trees now cover the horizon.

Note the typical thatched Irish cottages. Yeats' family lived in Howth in a cottage overlooking the harbour about twenty years before this picture was taken.

The small hamlet of slate-roofed farm houses and cottages lies at the end of a lane near Black Head, sheltered in the valley which climbs up from Hallane Beach.

These cottages on Ratford Hill are similar in style to the Sandy Lane estate cottages. The pair on the right was built in the early 19th century for Bowood estate workers.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. Here he wrote some of his best known poetry.

This thatched cottage, now slated, was a 17th-century farmhouse, then two cottages; now it is the lodge for Combe Head House.

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

The village is part of the Holnicote Estate, the gift of the Acland family to the National Trust, to which many of the village's thatched cottages now belong. Their preservation is thus assured.

In the far distance we can see a cottage which was owned in 1839 by the Rev John Benn, friend of Jane Austen.

The fronts of Yew Tree Cottage and the Prince of Wales, seen here, were to be made flush with the road, which was also to go through the next two cottages.

A THATCHED COTTAGE c1965. Worcestershire is fortunate to have many thousands of delightful buildings, a number of which are of considerable antiquity.