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In 1964 the former colliery village became the hub of the newly created Washington New Town, the idea behind it being to attract commuters and overspill from both Tyneside and Wearside.

The existence of the village is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor belonged to the abbey of St Augustine and to an?Italian monastery.

The village was a popular coach trip destination from the coastal resorts; now visitors travel in their cars. It is now largely residential with pubs and restaurants.

From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

Mining activities helped create the village, but the holiday trade really began to take off once the railway arrived in 1903. Penhale Point and Gull Rock are in the distance.

of Cockington is almost exactly the same today, thanks to the Mallocks of nearby Cockington Court: this is a 17th-century mansion that stands in 450 acres of parkland, and is now owned, along with the village

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

The next village downstream from Lechlade is little more than a hamlet.

This is the heart of Hardy Country - Hardy called this village Lew Everard. We are looking eastwards from Rectory Lane.

Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years. Still standing without change is St Mary's.

Sheep fleeces were the raw material for the five mills which were once working in the village. Chair-making was another speciality, and there is still a chair-maker here by the church.

Spanning the narrow street of this hill-top village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, ancient gateway to the castle, which lies ruinous close

centre) doubled as a newsagent's under the ownership of Edgar Allen, and also advertised a wide range of entertainments, from 'Viva Zapata' at the Lyric Cinema, Bridport, to a whist drive in Chideock village

Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.

Crawley was originally a village which grew in importance during the coaching era.

This road comes from Cold Overton, a fine Leicestershire village, on the hill just 2 miles away. As the sign shows, in 100 yards the road joins the busy A606 Melton-Oakham Road.

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

The village was once famous for its fair, where horses were bought and sold, and the `trashy articles displayed on the hoopla stalls flashed under the naphtha flares like the crown jewels

The church and the rather later Dinorben Arms present a wonderfully sleepy picture in this village near St Asaph.

Francis Frith's photographer would have been directed to the village of Glynn as the 'artists' spot'.

Around 350 years before this tranquil scene was captured, horses like these would have been ridden around the village by the knights of King Henry VIII.

The George Hotel, right, and the tobacconist and the teashop pictured nearby shared the village with Kent's smallest pub, the Little Gem.