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The mainstay of Galgate villagers from 1790 to 1960 was the silk mill, where 400 people worked during the mill's heyday.

Winding, hedge-bound lanes and low-built cottages thatched with wheat straw were typical of Inskip, Treales, Wharles and other Fylde villages.

When the old telephone box (centre) was moved and placed next to the village pump, it had to be listed to prevent its being replaced with a modern 'shower cubicle' version!

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

half-hipped timbered frame, visible at the gable end, and attic windows plus roadside flowers, early 16th- century Anthorn Cottage continues to give character to Blandford Road in the linear village

Substantially rebuilt by the Earl of Leicester in the 1880s, the village provides homes and a community for his staff. The far right building was the Reading Room; today it is the social club.

The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.

hedgerows and trees lie clues to an 18th-century rural landscape; the enclosures of the 1760s were hated by John Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, for its deleterious effect on the lives of ordinary village

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

The village features in the story surrounding Wulfhere of Mercia and his two sons Ulfred and Rufin.

Also featured is the bridge over the Derwent by which visitors from the south enter the village. Those coming from the north pass under the Abbey's embattled 15th-century gatehouse.

The village is said to have begun as the result of a shipwreck when survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.

The village got its red telephone box (centre) listed in 1987. The former post office, called Hunter's, is to its right.

Beyond is the village lock-up and Cage House.

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

Here ducks dabble peacefully in the beck which runs through the centre of the village, while a mother proudly poses with her baby.

Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages. The first sod was cut at Brodsworth Colliery in 1905 and at Hatfield Main in 1911.

The advent of the internal combustion engine saw the demise of the village blacksmith, although the art is making something of a comeback with the demand for decorative railings and gates.

Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three- storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the secondary layer of houses, including those of the

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

As well as a Somali Village, the Exhibition also contained a switchback railway and also a water chute, which cascaded into this lake.

Situated just to the east of Leeds, the village of Kippax was the scene of much coal mining since 1410. The estate surrounding the old Kippax Hall contained many unusual black deer.

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

At the end of the street is the Village Centre, a former school, while to its left you can just see the chancel of the medieval parish church.