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Villagers pose for the camera outside their homes in this little village near Braintree. This was the earliest English settlement of the Knights Templar, who were given the manor in 1135.

Syston, a Domesday village situated about four miles north of Leicester, was industrialised by an influx of framework knitters in the 19th century, which generated standardised red brick buildings

This rather posed picture shows the lower part of the village. The two men, one holding the horse and one with his dog, are everything a photographer could want in a village scene.

The Cross was once the hub of the village; it has a well- used mounting block, but modern travel and commerce have caught up with the picturesque village to a large degree.

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

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.

Almost fifty years after this tranquil scene was captured by our photographer, this village near Edenbridge would become known as the place of a dreadful train crash which killed five and injured 11 in

The pond, which was once the village well, is fed by spring water. Its calm waters reflect this compact, peaceful, and quiet north Oxfordshire village.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

This village green looks very overgrown. We are in the centre of the linear village of Long Preston, which is bisected by the busy A65 Skipton to Kirkby Lonsdale road.

A number of Dorset villages take their name from the River Piddle, or Puddle, as it is sometimes known.

This village lies close to the River Crouch. We can see the sign for the Black Lion hotel on the last building in the row. The weatherboarded cottages nearby are known as Black Lion Cottages.

This quiet scene was taken from across the small village green. In the foreground, on the left, is the village hall.

Between the village hall and the large windowless barn on the left, the picturesque group of houses has now been converted to Lion House.

A horse and cart trundles along the road spanning East Beck, one of two streams that meander through the village - the other is Sandsend Beck.

Both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell stayed in the village during the Civil War.

Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village.

When the first Earl of Dorchester purchased Milton Abbey in 1752, he had the entire village dismantled, moving it further away from his new home.

Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised

Twenty-nine local weavers were recorded working in what was then a small village in 1608, 19 of whom were specifically engaged in producing the broadcloth for which this area became famous

King’s Norton is less than two miles from Bournville, and though urban sprawl between the wars linked it to Birmingham, the old village still retains much of its rural character.

The post office that gave this picture its name was based in the building on the left, which was also a village shop. Today there is no village shop, nor a post office.

An evocative view of the inn, the Red Lion, in this little village between Colchester and Clacton.