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This is a bit of a misnomer, as it is only a T-junction – but the view is virtually unchanged today.

When this picture was taken there had been a Blue Bell inn in the village for over 140 years. In the early 1820s the village had three inns.

We are looking east towards the bridge over the beck. The village is only two miles from Richmond, but it retains its rural charm.

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

The village of Bolton-le-Sands sits astride the A6, four miles north of Lancaster.

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre. The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Behind the Best Kept Village sign (centre) stands Datchworth's whipping post. It is said that it was last used in 1665 when 'two vagabonds were publicly flogged here'.

The ivy-clad Red Lion Hotel is the main hostelry in Burnsall, standing adjacent to the village green in the heart of the village. Note the neat, gritstone cottages with their slabbed, gritstone roofs.

The village grocer's and newsagent's shop is seen in the foreground here with, immediately to its left, the village post office.

The Vine Hotel was certainly the largest building in the village; it was built before the Second World War. The writer seems to recall it being more of a very popular pub than a busy hotel.

This view of the village is now much more densely overgrown. There are also many more buildings in this area of the village now, but the buildings pictured here still exist.

Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.

We are looking east towards the bridge over the beck. The village is only two miles from Richmond, but it retains its rural charm.

The village overlooks the often windswept Rhosili Bay on the western edge of the Gower Peninsula. Tradition has it that the village is named after St Fili, who was possibly a son of St Cenydd.

The village overlooks the often windswept Rhosili Bay on the western edge of the Gower Peninsula. Tradition has it that the village is named after St Fili, who was possibly a son of St Cenydd.

The wide main street of the village of Coxwold has not changed much since the days when Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy, was vicar from 1760 until his death in 1768.

The village of Hinderwell lies between Easington and Runswick Bay. Here, in this delightful view of 1929, we see an early motorcar outside the Rectory.

Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the

An excellent small history of the village has recently been published by the Local History Group, which looks in the main at Billesdon's evolution since the 18th-century enclosures.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

Continuing south towards Worksop on the A60, the route reaches Langold, situated a mile south of Oldcotes.