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Next to it - immediately behind one of the white posts - are the village stocks.

Sible Hedingham is a large village in the Colne Valley. It was once well-known for its hops, and for its toy-works.

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

The rather barren appearance of the High Street exemplified in this photograph sets the tenor of this large mainly red-brick village.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some

Leading from the old village to the harbour beyond, this 16th-century arch, originally fitted with a portcullis and gates, was built to protect the settlement against pirates and smugglers.

East of Ashford, and now subsumed by it, the little village of Willesborough possesses two landmark structures.

Much of Puddletown was rebuilt in 1864, but the area around the church suggests the village that the young Hardy would have known.

The village is famous for its cricket club, which was established in the 1820s.

Tucked away among 'surroundings that are indescribably beautiful', boats nestle in the placid harbour waters of this picturesque village with its long, straggling street.

The Devil's Highway, a Roman road, passes through the village, and two Roman milestones can still be seen locally.

Famous for a ballad about its vicar, who, against a turbulent political climate, regularly changed his religion to avoid losing his very desirable living, Bray is one of the most attractive villages

Whitewell is a really small village: this medieval church and the Whitewell Inn are the only buildings of any note or size.

Although it has unremarkable proporions, these help it to blend perfectly into the setting of the village. Christ Church was consecrated in 1904.

Once a modest fishing village, Beer became a small resort during Victoria's reign.

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

It is said that Shillingstone sent more volunteers to the First World War than any comparably sized village in Dorset.

Great Sampford is a pleasant village in northern Essex on the road between Finchingfield and Saffron Walden.

This is a corner of the village green at Hampsthwaite, five miles from Harrogate on the banks of the River Nidd.

This compact village once possessed all the useful facilities of a rural community - a blacksmith's, numerous thriving shops and a large pinfold to corral stray animals.

Next door is a small thatched cottage similar to a number of others in the village. In the distance, we can just see the parish church, and past the church is Dock Lane.

Booton is a small village in North Norfolk, known mainly for its beautiful Victorian church built at his own expense and to his own design by the rector, Whitwell Elwin, who served the church for 50 years

Horning is one of the prettiest villages in Broadland: almost all the houses along the river have waterways and boathouses of their own.