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Until recently, Husthwaite, on the western edge of the Hambleton Hills near Easingwold, was known as the Orchard Village because of its abundance of apple, pear and plum orchards.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills.

Tenbury lies at the centre of a countryside rich in small farms, orchards and market gardens.

Rochdale adopted this red brick building, correctly named the Orchard, as the Manor House because it was the residence of the Deardens before they purchased the manor from the poet Lord Byron.

The last of the old apple orchards can be to the right of the photograph.

The apple orchards of Netherbury provided apples for a famous rough cider, which was manufactured in several of the local farms.

The name Orchard Croft was taken from an old tithe map of the area.

They are set in a land of rolling countryside, orchards and charming buildings - such as the ones seen here.

Littlebourne is one of the charming villages which are scattered throughout the orchard-rich swathe of countryside which reaches between Canterbury and Wingham.

This beautiful village is set up on a hilltop, surrounded by orchards and hopfields.

This estate was built after 1951; it was formerly the site of a mixed orchard, whose produce was sold through a greengrocer in Minster High Street.

Not far from Maiden Newton, Frome Vau Church (as it should properly be called) is pastoral and peaceful, with wildfowl in its river and cattle grazing around pasture and orchard.

This beautiful village is set up on a hilltop, surrounded by orchards and hopfields.

Too big for modern clergymen, it is now a restaurant, and its old orchard contains the town`s leisure centre.

The newly-planted orchard, left, now has mature fruiting trees.

The original 18th-century nucleus around the High Street and the church was still enclosed by orchards and elms in 1950, and Georgian houses still overlook a green.

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above

Many years before D G Sheppard opened his Orchard Stores, an entrepreneur named Alfred Reader had set up his cricket and hockey ball factory in the 1820s.

It was a village meeting place for hundreds of years before the village hall existed, and it is famed for its wassailing ceremony in the orchard behind.

The Victorian Methodist church beyond and Georgian Ilex Court beyond that remain, backed by orchards and separated by closes of new houses.

Across the Avon from Cropthorne, Fladbury is situated in rolling agricultural land of pasture and orchard.

Darley Street was originally part of the gardens and orchards of the old manorial estate.

The single-street village is characterised by orchards, walnut trees and cottages with tall chimneys with the backs of bread ovens bulging from their bases.

William Crowe, rector of Stoke, wrote a paean of praise to Lewesdon Hill, which drew the admiration of William Wordsworth: '...of hills, and woods and fruitful vales, and villages, half-hid in tufted orchards