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Alderholt is probably Dorset's easternmost village. Its boundaries brush hard against the borders of neighbouring Hampshire.

Littlebredy is one of those beautiful villages that time seems to have passed by, a real survivor of earlier pastoral farming.

Extensive development and infilling has transformed the village into more of a suburb of Hinckley today.

The village church is dedicated to St Mary and St Alkelda, and owes its collegiate status to Richard III.

The spacious forecourt of the Crown Inn in the neighbouring village of Stanstead St Margaret's, on the opposite bank of the River Lea.

A few sheep wandering in the road are watched over by a lad sitting on the bridge parapet in this view looking west along what is now the busy A39 through the village.

Christine Hamlyn took charge of things in 1886 and founded the Clovelly Estate Company, which runs the village to this day.

It probably provided horseshoes for such village notables as Nicholas Wadham, founder of Wadham College, and Captain Ewell, who commanded the marines aboard HMS 'Victory'.

Pebbles were once known locally as pobbles, and the ford on the River Otter was full of them - hence the name of the village.

Thatcham has grown and expanded enormously in recent years, though the character of the village centre remains intact.

The village is situated in a pleasant spot just below the Abberley Hills, an outcrop of the Malverns. There is a great deal of attractive countryside to explore nearby.

To make way for the new castle the old burgh, which was little more than a village, was demolished and a new one built.

Beyond the village is the historic Parrox Hall.

This is one of several villages in west Norfolk where the main building material is local carstone, rather than the flint used throughout the rest of the county: the buildings to the left of the photograph

The village of Brockenhurst lies in one of the most attractive parts of the New Forest, and many of its cottages are of considerable antiquity.

Looking towards Barnstaple, the village shop is still in business, albeit not selling Dominion Petrol any longer. Neither are the milk churns collected each day.

The village is, indeed, enclosed by a circular, pre-Roman ditch. In the 12th century a castle-keep was added, built on a central mount (hence the Mount Stores on the left).

The village is now very close to the ever-expanding Gatwick Airport.

The church, up a lane on the north side of the village, is a haven from the busy A38 which passes through between Saltash and Liskeard.

Notice the charming cottage draped with creeper opposite the churchyard with its unusual porch, and the village shop next to it.

19th-century creeper-covered cottage providing residential quarters for the teacher, a schoolroom has been added to one side of the building to offer educational facilities to the young children of the village

Tealby has the reputation of being Lincolnshire's most beautiful village, and as beauty is in the eye of the beholder it may well be, as it truly is picturesque.

The spacious market place or square in the centre of the Wensleydale village of Masham is surrounded by fine 18th- and 19th-century houses, with the ancient market cross under the trees as its centrepiece

Standing on a Christian site with a thousand-year history, this is the third church to stand in the village.