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Something of its former village quality remains, and it is still bordered by open countryside - something that not many towns in this county can claim.

It is often said to have been founded by Lady Godiva, but Meriden's main claim to fame is the ancient cross on the village green reputed to mark the centre of England.

On the east side of the village, this is an undernourished Non- conformist chapel, in a sense a poor relation of the Methodist church in Castle Donington.

There can't be many village shops that can claim to have been trading for more than 200 years. The timber building on the left can make just that claim.

A village grew up around the dock – we can see the school on the right. The Pentewan Railway closed in 1918, and the harbour soon became blocked and disused.

Once a strategic Roman station, this coastal village is now almost a suburb of Great Yarmouth.

Separated from Loddon by the river Chet, the village of Chedgrave has become a desirable residential area. All Saints' Church stands solidly against the east wind which blows across the marshes.

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

Much of the villagers' living comes from the tourist trade, a far cry from the century before, when the men risked their lives going out to sea in their small boats and women spent their time looking after

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station.The 15th-century church is on the hill- side.The photograph shows the view from the side of Stane Street, which

Perhaps the village's name indicates an early link with geese, but instead today it is the home to an annual gooseberry show, which seems most apt.

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

Rhosili village is enclosed by an ancient field system: strips of land known as landshares are bounded by low stone walls.

This crossroads west of the village of Calver is known as Calver Sough - a sough (pronounced “suff”) being a drainage tunnel designed to take water out of lead mines.

At the centre of the village is the ancient market cross and priory gatehouse, now owned by the National Trust.

During the 17th century, one of the country's first paper mills was built in the village, a far cry from Euxton's industrial role in the 20th century, when a munitions factory began production here

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop village

Here we see a quiet corner of the Ribblesdale village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

The Kent-Sussex border divides the village in two, but this area, the older part with tile-hung cottages clustered around a triangular green, is in Kent.

The village's only junction is shown here.

It remains a village of beautiful cottages on the high road between Exeter and Dorchester.