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Here we see Gunnerside Beck rushing into the Swale. Village life is captured in the streets of the village - the Literary Institute (1877) still stands, now the post office and village hall.

The tiny and isolated village of Keld stands high up in Swaledale (1100ft), surrounded by beautiful walking country; it is a favourite with lovers of the wild northern dales.

The tour moves south-west to Alfriston, situated in the River Cuckmere valley where the river cuts through the South Downs chalk.

The parish church of St Mark is in the main part of the village, near the Methodist Chapel, the primary school and the village shop.

Still pleasantly rural, with views of woods and the distant Bowland Fells, this village stands near Wennington Hall, where Peter Hesketh, founder of Fleetwood-on-Wyre was born.

As we look across toward the village, we can see that the land is rough scrubland, nothing like the fertile valleys which the visitor will come to know.

This is the second public house of the village, and a lot less famous than the Maypole. It was originally a beer house, which was established as the village grew.

We are looking back across the Wye to the village. A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate.

A small group (centre left), seeking the shade of mature trees in the hot summer of 1921, faces the photographer.

This rural scene can be found to the west of Darlington. A huge green on either side of the road gives breathing space to the village.

Oakham Lane is one of the streets leading from the village green. The building with the white window partially obscured behind the tree was the village school.

Although most of the buildings are the same as they were 60 years before in view number 42273, their appearance has certainly changed for the better.

East of Malton we find the mostly Victorian village of Rillington - its development followed the arrival of the railway.

Situated six miles west of Darlington, Piercebridge is unusual in that the village was built within the ramparts of a Roman fort that once guarded the bridge over the Tees carrying the road between York

The village centre with the Crown pub and the old church is a pleasant spot. To the south of the village, brick making has been an important local industry.

The village sign was erected in 1922 and depicts St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, and a small child, traditionally, the infant Jesus, crossing a ford.

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

Quorn ('Querendon' in 1209) means 'the hill from where millstones were obtained'.

Near the Wharfe and overlooking the 1592ft Simon's Seat, Appletreewick was the resting place of monks on their journey between Bolton Abbey and Fountains Abbey.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

This beautiful village is situated on the Sussex border on a headstream of the Medway river. The village contains a number of fine weatherboarded houses and a school with Tudor timbering.

Nothing much has altered here except that the Narrow Road sign has been changed and there are some new power lines across the road.

The 19th-century squire, Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, had every window in the village altered to have rounded lights under an exterior arch in the belief that this would bring good luck.

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.