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An excellent view of a working village.

Much of the village is owned by the Cowdray Estate, near Midhurst, and many of the cottages in Cocking have their woodwork painted the bright yellow of the estate.

The village rapidly grew into a popular spa town, with visitors flocking from all over Europe to sample its sulphur and chalybeate springs.

Francis Frith's Kent Aylesford Aylesford is a perfectly sited village by the River Medway and the scene of many battles in ancient times.

East of Sandy, the small village of Sutton is distinguished by its narrow medieval pack-horse bridge which took pedlars and carriers' pack ponies dry-shod past the ford, which is still in use today.

The small village of Whitby, where the canal met the river, was renamed Ellesmere Port.

The road to the left leads to the pub, the school, the village hall and the church, and the road to the right to Sedgebrook and the A52 to Nottingham.

Cut off from the bustling town centre by the old town hall, this lane feels more like a village street.

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

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.

At the centre of this village, which is attached by suburbia to Purley and Croydon, is a triangular green with a war memorial.

The village was a Roman settlement with a tile works. It later became a centre for the iron industry with a furnace, a forge and a cannon foundry.

This 'village', now known as Old Harlow, is just to the east of the New Town, which was started in 1947 to help relieve London's congestion.

This delightful village, 2 miles south of Bedale, was once the support for the castle.

When the railway arrived in the village, life changed overnight.

Brent Knoll village straggles along the western side of the Knoll, with St Michael's Church, a dedication often associated with hill-tops and hills, to the centre and the Manor House of the 1860s to

A similar trend is reflected in the pictures of villages, taken because there were once village shops and post offices which were points of sale.

Virtually unchanged since this view was taken, apart from the loss of the central chimney stacks, the Six Bells is in the old village of Horley near the parish church of St Bartholomew, whose churchyard

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Carshalton's ponds, which are spring-fed and lead to the River Wandle, are a most attractive feature in the centre of the village.

The rickety door is smothered with auctioneers' flyers for farm sales; the village forge had always been a meeting place for farmers where they could gossip and discuss the news of the day.

This view shows the eastward Victorian expansion of the village, with a recreation ground laid out on the right beyond the junction with Ifield Road; the Rising Sun Inn is at the left, a hipped slate-roofed

The place name dates back to the 11th century, but the original village fell into disuse and no trace of it remains today.

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill