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The village lies east of Rushton Hall's park. This view looks east, the road curving past the churchyard towards the hipped roofed Thornhill Arms in the distance.

The villages of West and East Lulworth now stand adjacent to vast military firing ranges, though fortunately they never suffered the fate of nearby Tyneham, which was taken by the army during the Second

Winchester College has owned much of Sydling for generations, ensuring a continuity of building and landscape conservation missing in so many Dorset villages.

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.

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

Once much feared as a punishment, village stocks are now just a picturesque part of our history. They were mostly used for minor offences such as drunkenness and petty theft.

In recent years, land to the west of the village has been developed for sports and recreation. To the north-east, houses have been built up to Charlton Nature Reserve.

Mothers and children make their way to Chilbolton's village store and post office. Power lines are visible in the picture, but electricity came to Chilbolton much later than many other communities.

It was also the village post office until it closed in the 1980s. Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales.

Below is the Gothic-style village school, built in 1827. The 17th-century gable-fronted cottage on the right is one of several Cotswold-style cottages in the village.

Pangbourne is home to the famous Nautical College, established on top of a hill in the village in 1917.

Here we have another view of picturesque thatched cottages in the village.

Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.

During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American soldiers, who would practise troop

The village is famous for a charming myth which suggests that if the mist in the beechwoods on the nearby Downs rolled westwards towards Cocking, then rain was on the way.

The house nearest the camera was once the village poorhouse. It dates from the 16th century.

An ancient village recorded in the Domesday Book as Penictune, it has a stream flowing through it like Downham has, and it also lies at the foot of Pendle Hill.

Alkham is an attractive little village nestling in the valley of the river Dour between Folkestone and Dover.

Just along the road from Duntisbourne Abbots is the village of Duntisbourne Leer, named after the great Normandy Abbey at Lire which once owned the manor.

The village of Kettleness succumbed to disaster on 17 December 1829 when the cliff broke away and the houses and alum works fell into the sea.

In the 1780s, Leamington was little more than a village with a population of around 300 people.

The cottages of Langton, near Malton, still cluster around the village green, as they did when this photograph was taken.

The railed and culverted Thornton Beck runs through the village of Thornton Dale, east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors.

It was a village meeting place for hundreds of years before the village hall existed, and it is famed for its wassailing ceremony in the orchard behind.