In the centre of the village is a duck pond surrounded by attractive thatched dwellings.

The few houses bordered on the whimsical: a traditionally thatched dwelling with a solar panel (old hippies?)

Among my new friends was an old old woman who lived in such a little thatched and whitewashed dwelling that when the outside shutter was turned up on its hinges, it shut up the whole house-front.

Over recent centuries, the inhabitants of the single-storey, thatched vernacular dwellings that dotted the valley sides harvested turf from the bog, revealing the stumps of the oaks that once filled the valley.

There are two grade II listed thatched dwellings in High Toynton: an 18th century mud and stud cottage, and a similar red brick encased house.

There are several old thatched dwellings.

Tarzan could see that he was commanding them to fire the little thatched dwellings.

A single thatched dwelling is nestled in a hollow to the right of the road a half-kay or so beyond the road marker.

Was it true that the larger, kraal-like thatched dwellings belonged to multiparous lady Krug, while the curiously incomplete circle of quite small houses belonged to hopeful maidens?

I strolled through exhibits on hill-tribe agricultural techniques, models of their simple thatched dwellings, and explanations of traditional animist beliefs.