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The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

Known for its world-famous zoo, the village has been carefully allowed to grow.

The village green was known as the heath, and on the left we can see the Heath Engineering Works. In the centre is the Institute, and the shop with the blind down was F Bromley, a butcher's.

This unforgettable village cupped in a hollow with a large wayside pond is the home of All Saints' Church.

A lane leads south-west from the green by the former post office to St Paul's Church and Culham Manor.

This is perhaps the largest village green in Lancashire, although the duck pond seems to be diminishing. Cottages, the Grapes Inn, the church and the school are facing or clustered round the green.

By the time the castle was finished in around 1200, Richmond had grown in size; a market has been held here since 1155.

This view shows the great width of the street running north to the Green and the church.

This very attractive village has a fine triangular green dominated on the south side by its remarkably apt parish church, which from a distance looks as though it has always been there.

This broad parade, named after Queen Victoria, runs along the East Cliff in front of Wellington Crescent and the lawns.

All three villages greens here were bought from the Duchy of Lancaster in 1926 for £5. St Leonard's Church was built in 1878 on the site of earlier ones dating back to 1220.

Still on the green, the camera points south to Steventon Road, the south lane from the High Street, already in 1955 closed to traffic.

The Old Deanery on the north side of the Green is a large 15th-century building with an inner courtyard. In 1497 Henry VII stayed here after the Perkin Warbeck uprising.

Built around 1130, the Manor is supposed to be the oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain.

Further west, the High Street meets Abingdon Road (right) and Steventon Road (left) in a small green.

This chapter finishes across the next valley and up on the chalk ridge at Warlingham, 600 feet above sea level.

Clevedon's immunity from the heavy excursion element which affects many seaside towns renders it a veritable haven of rest.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green. Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

This view is taken from the west, near the north-east corner of the Green, at the foot of Angel Hill. The fine west tower of All Saints dominates the scene.

The loftiness results from Scott's restoration. His are the Victorian pews, but side galleries had been removed in 1921.

A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green. Hingham was responsible for providing New England with many settlers in the 17th century, where they founded another Hingham.

The Dog & Partridge sign stands in the middle of the green; the pub is still trading, and it is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party's headquarters. Yateley is near the Berkshire border.

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul shows above the low rise houses which bound The Green; it was heavily 'restored' in 1872 by F W Ordish.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.