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Some distance away is the small village of Downholme, once bustling, with lead workings nearby, now close to Catterick Garrison's firing ranges.

Three cars outside the Farmers Arms Inn indicate an increase in visitors to this 18th-century stone village.

The village gets its name from a Viking, Sigward. There is a record of a chapel here in about 1050, situated where Cove Lane meets Emesgate Lane.

The post office was also the local shop and delivered bread, groceries, meat and milk to many villagers' doorsteps; now it is a private house.

Apart from the more modern cars parked at the kerbs, little has changed in the village.

Apart from one white terrace, the hillside above the fishing village has since been fully developed for housing.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

Various other 19th-century buildings survive, but the ambitious scheme never reached fruition and Alverstoke, once a small village on the Haslar Creek, was eventually swallowed up by Gosport.

Capel Curig village stands at a junction of valleys on the London to Holyhead road, and has long been a stopping place for travellers and visitors.

This rather imposing white- painted late 18th- or early 19th-century brick-faced pub under a slated roof is set back from the main village street, selling Shipstones Ales from a local Nottingham

Many of the sturdy, timber-framed cottages in the centre of this lovely village have been reinforced and decorated with brickwork during the 18th century.

The ruins of Corfe Castle dominate the parish and village to which it has given its name. The original Saxon fortification was succeeded by the extensive Norman castle seen today.

Polperro is arguably the most picturesque fishing village in Cornwall, and it has long been a favourite with artists and day trippers. Smuggling was important in days gone by.

Today the village is mainly the province of pleasure craft, who clog the quays in the months of summer.

Around the time this photograph was taken, the village station and the line were axed, and a stillness descended on Woodford Halse once more.

The village is an architectural mix with older stone houses set amid Victorian brick and slate, and modern 20th-century homes.

Strete stands on the winding lanes which form the highway between Dartmouth and the villages clustered around the great freshwater lake of Slapton Ley.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

Here we see the pub where all village pubs should be - next door to the churchyard.

Today the village is mainly the province of pleasure craft, who clog the quays in the months of summer.

In 1954 the village population was 246 and the school had 38 pupils.

imposing brick building in Rockingham Road was constructed in 1937 to cater for the large number of schoolchildren coming into the town and to ease the burden on the Rowlett School in the nearby village

The High Street in Kimbolton was the market place for the surrounding villages and the site of the 'Staty' Fair that is still held every September.

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers, with the help of wind pumps.