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This view looks down the hill into the village. The Old Crown Inn and the adjoining cottages are faced by the Georgian houses on the other side of the green.

Then came houses and shops to create today's village on either side of the A322. Two of its close neighbouring communities have the unusual names of Penny Pot and Donkey Town.

The village was an important centre for weaving, but is now more famous for white water canoeing.

To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair. This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

The town owes much to the Victorian jeweller Joseph Mayer, who gave his home village a little library in Mayer Hall in 1866.

During the evening it doubled as the village hall. During the First World War it served as a military hospital for wounded soldiers.

Buntingford was founded in the 1100s and served as a market for the surrounding villages and communities, particularly the settlement at the adjacent Layston.

In 1811, the village and factory were amongst the first to be lit by gas, and in 1822 the mill was converted to steam.

During the 18th century, the village was a halt for stage coaches travelling between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale.

Growing from a small fishing village to an unpretentious resort during the middle of the 19th century, Lower Heysham has retained its 'olde world' atmosphere.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves—the new and the old.

A mile or so to the north of the village is a house where Edward Elgar spent his summers between 1917 and 1921.

This is the heart of the village, with the George Inn (left) and the Lion Hotel, both former coaching inns, standing opposite each other.

The change in name reflects the growing interest in Rupert Brooke, the First World War poet from this village.

We continue on to the village pond, which now has a fringe of sedge and reeds and is home to many coot, duck and moorhen. The old thatched house on the left was replaced in 1959 by a modern house.

One famous 18th-century villager was Nicholas Sanderson.

The village doctor once had his surgery at the Hall, though his patients disliked passing the graveyard whenever they visited him. Today, the ivy has really taken hold of the gate-piers.

There are now houses and the Duporth Holiday Village along the slopes behind.

Today, as might be expected from somewhere which boasts both a Birmingham Road and a Coventry Road, it is largely a commuter village.

This village's name means 'the settlement by the church', possibly in this case a church that was first founded i pre-Saxon times. Here we see the present church partially hidden amongst the trees.

Mapledurham, with its great Tudor mansion and unchanged village, is one of Oxfordshire's most picturesque and historic ones.

Leaving the villages along the river, we move inland south to Earley, now very much part of Reading. In 1910 Church Road was a country lane still.

Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.