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The village's favourable microclimate encourages the profusion of climbing plants up the walls of the houses, which have the steep pitched stone roofs typical of Cotswold villages.

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

The village bus is setting off for Looe outside the famous Punch Bowl Inn, which is said to have been used for the distribution of goods by smugglers.

All the classic ingredients of a large village are seen in this photograph.

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.

The pretty estate village of Hovingham in the Vale of Pickering is famous for Hovingham Hall, built about 1760 by Thomas Worsley, Surveyor General to William III.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, though there was some quarrying in the locality.

The village lies just beyond where it crosses the A38 Bristol road at a vast roundabout.

The pretty estate village of Hovingham, in the Vale of Pickering, is famous for its lime trees which shade the entrance to Hovingham Hall, built about 1760 by Thomas Worsley, Surveyor General to William

The lone horse and rider approaching along the High Street, past Walnut Tree Cottage, is a reminder that the village once had a blacksmith and saddler.

The pretty village of Bainbridge, centred on its extensive green, stands on the banks of the River Ure (foreground).

When the plague reached Eyam in a consignment of cloth from London, the villagers, encouraged by their vicar William Mompesson, decided to isolate themselves from the outside world in an attempt to contain

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

St Paul's serves what was once a sleepy village, separated from the hustle and bustle of Swansea by green fields. However, Sketty is now very much part of the extended city.

The church is certainly worth a visit, as is the village itself.

The village school was on the right through the little gate. It opened in 1865 and closed in 1946, becoming the village hall. The houses give an 'estate' look to the scene.

This part of the village is immediately behind the church. Bolton Hall Estate own most of the property here; no new houses have been built, nor is there employment other than in agriculture.

Lexden was once a little village a few miles to the west of Colchester, but has now been subsumed as a suburb.

Headcorn stands on the River Beult and is a large village with a single broad, straggling street. On the right outside the George and Dragon is a motorcycle with an unusual basketwork sidecar.

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Dalgleish Way is part of the later 1950s and early 1960s village expansion.

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs.

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road. The Red Lion, c1550, is an old coaching inn.

Around the village green stands this collection of cottages leading back to St Michael's Church (1552). There has been milling here in the village since the 14th century.