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The buildings are a mixture of 18th- century cottages and 19th-century grander houses which were built on the site of former farmyards.

Facing the Green Dragon across the road is a terrace of stone cottages, with the New Inn at the end. Next door to the Green Dragon, an antiquated Regent petrol pump indicates a garage.

The adjoining ancient cottages have gone, and have been replaced with housing that remains in keeping with the town.

It achieved a status as a modest resort in the early years of the 19th century when a number of the cottages we see here were built to accommodate visitors.

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Bay Cottage (left) provided the real-life original for Jane Austen's character Captain Harville in her novel 'Persuasion'.

Thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained fenland left.

A scattering of mansions, cottages, and odds and ends of streets nestling beneath a limestone cliff or half hidden away among wooded slopes, this tiny Torquay of Lancashire has, as yet, escaped the notice

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

A thatched cottage is the post office. A sign on the rickety telegraph pole advertises a public telephone, and fixed to the nearby wall is a bus timetable proclaiming that this is a fare stage.

This is optimistic, to say the least, but the heart of the former village is still a pleasant and rather unexpected scene of brick cottages, a pub, a former cattle pound and this sandstone church.

In 1908 another historian record- ed that 'many modern red-brick cottages are now in process of building to supply the needs of the men who are employed in the Eastleigh Railway Works'.

On the extreme right we can see the chimney of one of the 18th- and 19th-century textile mills which were situated in the valley bottom beside the River Frome; the weavers' cottages occupied

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.

The journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in a cottage beneath the castle.

Next to the car park of the Crown public house on the right, the creeper-covered cottage advertises the services of the local coal and coke merchant J W Roberts.

Here, a little south of Cookham, is the My Lady Ferry with the lock-keeper's cottage on the far bank.

To the right is the thatched Myrtle Cottage.

Wareham's South Causeway (centre right) is glimpsed between the thatched cottage and the coach. The building beside the latter is the King's Arms (right).

Chulmleigh is an ancient wool town, and its antiquity is reflected in the wealth of old cob and thatch cottages. A fire destroyed many old buildings in 1803.

Another of Sussex's seaside villages, Rustington boasts a few flint-walled cottages and a medieval church.

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.

Saracen`s Cottage (far left) once accommodated servants and horses whilst their superiors were staying at The Saracen`s Head, Dunmow`s main coaching-inn.

The cottages in this alley still retain a simple charm. The house on the left has been given rough repairs for generations - its toppling dormer lacks several panes of glass.