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The village store, which is the present Post Office (right) was advertising Venus Soap (enamel sign on fence), Fry's Chocolate and Fry's Pure Cocoa (windows), and Dr Sutherland's report on patent Rua Tea

Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-century rectory, and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

This village stands near?Watling Street, three miles south-west of Gravesend. It gained its name from a river passage that once reached it from the Thames at Northfleet.

Most of the buildings on the left survive, with the pantiled building behind the white cottage much altered and now the village shop, 'Ram News'.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-century rectory, and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality.

With four cars visible, this section of the township was obviously wealthy – indeed, it was the opening of the road link to Birkenhead that prompted the rapid growth from settlement to village

The houses in this view are for the most part late Victorian, apart from the one on the right; the prettiest part of the village is nearer the church and the Crown pub at the bottom of the

On the left the builder Brackenbury and Sons replaced its sheds by a 1960s building of little merit, but at least the firm is still in the village.

L T Gamblin's village smithy with the cycles leaning against it has gone the way of most forges and is now a shop, Poppy's Delicatessen, while the post office is now the Beauty Gallery and has lost

On the right-hand side of the street by the parked car is the village inn, the Sir Walter Raleigh, named in honour of East Budleigh's most famous son.

The route turns west, and passes through East Hanney to West Hanney, a village with two parallel lanes and a small green at the east end.

As Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick looked out over his land, he would have seen acres of the Yorkshire countryside full of villages (little changed today).

On the east side of the 5-acre village green, now used for cricket matches, is the Hall, built in 1732. It was the country seat of the Duke of Leeds, who lived at Kiveton Park in south Yorkshire.

The parish dates from 1895, when Longton was a small village straggling along the Liverpool Road.

Situated between the River Thames and Quarry Woods, made famous in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', Bisham is one of Berkshire's most historic villages.

Crays Hill has, in the past, been at the centre of various speculative transport schemes: there was once talk of an Islington-Wallasea railway passing this way, as well as plans to link the village to

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above the stream

This development of 178 dwellings was built in 1952-55, so these children will have been able to go to the brand new school in the village.

Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.

The bustling village of Hawes is the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, and the economic and social centre for the farmers of the dale.

Nothing appears in the photograph to shake the post-war calm of the village, bypassed on its eastern side by the busy A6.

This village, on the A4055 between Penarth and Barry, is so small that it could be easily overlooked. Station Road looks a tidy place: the hedges are well trimmed and the roadway is clean.