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The sea has long retreated from Porlock village to the present seashore: it is now a mile and a half drive to its outlet to the sea at Porlock Weir, a charming small harbour with three hotels as well

In this village churchyard there is a 19th-century memorial to thirty hop pickers who drowned when their cart slipped over a crumbling bridge and dragged them into the depths of the River Medway.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

In 1791 Bognor was re-named Hothamton after Sir Richard Hotham, whose intention was to change the village into 'a desirable sea-bathing resort' for those of the nobility and gentry wishing to avoid the

The High Street was part of the original lane which ran through the old village to the sea.

The attractive mixture of village vernacular and Victorian buildings suggests a sleepy backwater, yet Caerleon has been an important site since Roman times, when they turned it into a major fortress, and

The Buttertubs Pass leads dramatically down to this village, which is 9 miles west of Muker. It was hit by a natural disaster in 1898, the result of a cloud burst.

To the centre right is the Guildhall of c1495, with the Arts and Crafts-style Village Hall behind.

The village pump commemorates Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. The corners of the shelter are carved with the queens Boadicea, Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria.

Nearby lies the churchyard; here we can find the grave of James Parker, who was brutally murdered outside the village in 1886.

The brick wall on the left encloses the grounds of Shelton House, the best building in the village, a late 18th- century brick house predating Woburn Sands' arrival; it is now offices.

Five bridges step over the Windrush in Bourton before it flows on downstream to the village that bears its name, and then to Barrington, Burford and Witney to join the Thames.

The Dorey family were everywhere at this end of the village.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.

A precursor to the deterioration in town and village centre design is to be seen in the refenestration of the first floor to W H Smiths.

In 1895 the village had the benefit of a post and money order office, supervised from?Gravesend.

Archaeologists have found remains of 13th-century glass-making furnaces in the village. French immigrants worked the glass.

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row. Holy Trinity church was built towards the end of the last century and features a copy of an Italian Pieta by Francesco Francia.

Many villages in the Cuckmere valley have medieval dovecotes.

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

This old community, and the one at Felday, were joined together into the village of Holmbury St Mary in 1879,when wealthy Victorians popularised them and built large houses in the surrounding pine forests

From the entrance of the enclosed harbour, the village looks the perfect small beachside resort. Its quaint, colour-washed cottages complement the easy access to the beach.

Just a mile inland from Hinderwell, the village of Ellerby is centred on this late 17th-century hostelry.

Although the village is a little way from the sea, the coast is home to many caravans and amusement centres.