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The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Small garages like this one were once a familiar sight in Britain's country towns and villages.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.There have been a few changes here since the

This is still a quiet haven off the A38 which passes through the village between Saltash and Liskeard.

Seen here from the south, across the bank of the small stream which flows through the village, the pale sandstone outline of St George's Church stands proudly in its churchyard.

There is another café just outside the village, at Derwen College. This is a college for school leavers with learning difficulties, and catering is one of the subjects taught here.

Standing some 800ft up, rising in green terraces above the village, it affords panoramic views with the erosion caused by rivers and frost action during the Ice Ages evident in the isolation of the

Unlike many Norfolk beaches, which allowed the erection of permanent wooden beach huts, Gorleston offered a few temporary huts for weekly hire and a 'village' of square tents.

After the railway came to Mundesley in 1898, it was anticipated that the village would be as popular as Cromer.

The road leading out of this village, climbing the north-east flank of the head of the valley, was built in 1930-32 by unemployed miners. Note the two boys on the left of the picture.

Like the inhabitants of many villages at the time, the people here were recovering from the devastating effects of the First World War.

Although it looks as if this village had a grocer's shop, if residents wanted the big town experience it was necessary to travel a few miles.

Knott-End was once a fishermen's village with a small white customs house, and brave attempts were made to turn it into a resort renamed St Bernard's-on-Sea with an improved promenade and a high-walled

Although it is close to the sugar-processing factory, this village on the River Yare is an ideal spot for holidaymakers.

This was the thatched lodge gate from the village street to the Hall. It dates from the 1840s, when Sir Henry Bunbury created the park around the Hall.

The thatched cottage on the right has an early AA metal sign, giving mileages to local villages. The next building down had been Goymour's the butchers until 1950.

This early photograph of Castleton at the head of the Hope Valley shows the intricate network of drystone walls which surrounds the village.

This compact little village in a hollow south of the Hog's Back is benignly watched over by St Lawrence's Church, with its wooden 14th-century south porch.

Fortunately, the busy A33 bypasses this sprawling Hampshire village.

Almost at the end of the Lleyn Peninsula, this small village opens out onto the beach and Cardigan Bay. Here the few visitors that could make their way here enjoy a lazy day on the beach.

Piped water came to the village in 1892 after an outbreak of typhus. The ford was replaced by a bridge over the beck in the winter of 1966/67.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.

Note that the village is well above flood level. A tablet records that in 1794 a gypsy girl, Rose Boswell, was buried in the church despite prevailing objections.