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Considered to be the oldest house in the village, the Jolly Gardeners is now a private dwelling. In the distance on the right stands the parish church, which dates from Norman times.

Although in 1960 Walkern was a peaceful village, its history included many scenes of violence.

The single-street village is characterised by orchards, walnut trees and cottages with tall chimneys with the backs of bread ovens bulging from their bases.

The Crown Inn (left) survives, along with the village shop on the right and the adjacent little shop, now a beauty salon. Out of the picture to the right is the Old School, dated 1852.

These vehicles are passing through the village long before today's bypass was created. On the fast A24 dual-carriageway road, signs once warned of 'deceptive bends'.

A quiet village on the outskirts of Woodbridge, maybe, but the sign on the pub is a reminder of the concentration of military bases in East Anglia at the height of the Cold War, with the radar station

Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb. During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

This rambling village is a mixture of the old and the new. Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office.

Shops and services have been developed for the growing community that is now well-established as one of Leicester's commuter villages.

Here, though, in more tranquil days, St Andrew's, one of the largest of the county's churches, overlooks the village centre.

Built in stone from the original Marton Hall in 1850 to serve the village of Marton, this Victorian building operated as the local school until 1963, when a modern building replaced it nearby.

The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street. The green outside the cottages is still used as a communal gathering area for picnics and recreation.

Tucked away under the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of Middlemarch here in 1871.

By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786. Less than 15 years after this picture was taken, 96 men from Headley were killed in the First World War.

The old houses along this main street, some half-timbered, others of brick, or board or tile fronted, were mostly constructed during the 15th century when the village prospered in the profitable cloth

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

Cross the humped bridge over the river from Coltishall, and the village becomes Horstead.

He became known as 'Diamond' Pitt and, having made a profit of £100,000 on the sale, he rebuilt the village church in 1716.

Acomb House, to the south of the village square, was built in the 1730s, though it is thought to incorporate the remnants of an earlier house.

Many villages have a similarly named spot where lanes meet. The view was taken looking down Church Road from Cartmel Road by the crossroads, and is still much the same in appearance.

The church itself dates from Saxon and Norman times, when the village was an important centre of the Royal Forest of the Peak, a hunting preserve of Norman monarchs.

The village church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is Norman in origin and was partially rebuilt during the 13th century.Within a few decades the church was extended; the west tower with its octagonal spire

Great Wakering is an attractive village, just a few miles to the north of Shoeburyness in the remote old marshlands of the south east of Essex.