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Grendon Underwood is a long, straggling village, with the gaps filled steadily from the 1950s onwards.

One of the village's more eccentric traditions is a football match which locals play each August Bank Holiday as they have done for many years past - up to their knees in the river.

In common with many other villages in the area, the incorporation of the word 'Blundell' into the place name is a reminder of the extent of the Blundell family's influence during the 18th and 19th

West Horndon is a planned village dating only from the 1940s. Before that, it had been a sparsely-inhabited parish, whose medieval church had collapsed by the early 18th century.

West Horndon is a planned village dating only from the 1940s. Before that, it had been a sparsely-inhabited parish, whose medieval church had collapsed by the early 18th century.

From Victorian times up to the start of the Second World War, Goudhurst and other Wealden villages among the hop fields were subjected to an annual late summer invasion of entire families from South

The village grew up in the Leicestershire coalfields, along with its neighbours Coalville, Ellistown and Bagworth.

The village used to be called Auldkirk because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the sixteenth century.

On the left are the Goodwin Almshouses, founded in 1642 but rebuilt by Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1893, and beyond is the full-blown Arts and Crafts style Waddesdon village hall of 1897, also built by

A small 13th-century building, Holy Trinity is rather hidden away, but it is the village's jewel. Built of flint and stone, it has a Perpendicular nave, chancel and west tower.

Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele

The village of Hampton is quite compact and largely ignored by those rushing through in their cars.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

The English border runs directly through the village, so that Welsh Sabbath drinking laws meant that on Sunday half was 'dry' and all the boozing was done on the English side.

Today, the common abounds with wildlife and makes a colourful asset to the village.

Helsby's name means the 'village on a ledge', but it would be more correct to say that it nestles just under the ledge or outcrop of rock seen here.

Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.

The ancient name for the village is Barelegh (meaning 'wasteland'), but lush meadows now support flocks of sheep.

The village grew up in the Leicestershire coalfields, along with its neighbours Coalville, Ellistown and Bagworth.

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row.

Incidentally, the village name is pronounced 'peever'.

Back at the Victorian eastern end of the village, the photographer looks north-east across the Recreation Ground, where mothers and children are enjoying the summer afternoon.

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village.