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Further along the street there are 17th-century thatched cottages, but the closest house is Victorian, with a metal balcony over its bay- window shop front.

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

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

This open space was created as a car park in 1921 by demolishing a cottage. The single-storey extension to the pub also dates from 1921, when Hiskey Golding was the landlord.

Although the photograph captures a cosy enclave of stone and thatched cottages, the village has expanded, and now contains a whole range of architectural styles.

The local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church (centre) rely on simple, but excellent, details for effect - no incongruous plastic windows and doors here.

Beyond are the four little cottages now adapted into three shops (one of which, Ada Francis, is advertising her Dining & Tea Rooms), and the post office, which replaced that at Maplesden's

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

The lodgings range became five cottages.

The old Tudor timber-framed cottage formerly stood slightly further to the south, before being purchased by Epsom Rural Council in 1922 when it was dismantled and transferred to this present site.

The estate was sold off after Alexander's death, and by 1855 a number of cottages and houses had been built in what are now Westfield Road, St Leonard's Road, and Cadogan Road.

The river is immediately beyond the road in front of Brick Alley Almshouses, but until 1884 there were cottages, a pub, warehouses and wharves fronting the river.

The novelist remarked on the beautiful setting of what was then just a straggling line of fishermen's cottages.

Beyond the delivery van parked on the same side as The George Hotel stands a row of cottages once quaintly named Ship's Yud Row.

Clematis Cottage (left) faces a long line of dwellings, all of which survive, from No 5 (left end) to No 39 (far right).

Notice the small row of cottages on the right with its rendered roof and catslide dormers; the traditional shop fronts; the plain render; and the sash windows.

The white cottage on the right of the High Street is now the premises of an estate agent, and the ivy which covers the house on the left has gone.

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.

The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.

In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and