📷 Photo by Brian Robert Marshall · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The most photographed row of cottages in England, and older than most visitors expect: it went up around 1380 as a monastic wool store and was only converted into weavers’ cottages in the late 17th century, so the buildings are a good two centuries older than the weaving they are named for.
The row is Grade I listed and owned by the National Trust, but the cottages are let to tenants and there is no public access inside — numbers 1 and 9 are Trust holiday lets, which is the only way to stay in one. Opposite lies Rack Isle, the boggy meadow named for the racks the finished cloth was hung on to dry, now a wildfowl reserve grazed in late summer by Belted Galloway cattle. Vehicle access to the row itself is for residents only.
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O. Bertram · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons