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Cottages in the village date from 1845; just to the right was the old Forge Mill. The Cock Inn is still in business, but the old village hall behind is long gone.

We are entering the village from Flimwell. On the right, note the people waiting for a bus next to the Village Hall, built in 1921.

It was a popular place for holidays, even though the village had been spoiled not only by the ruins of an alum works, but by an iron bridge that carried the railway line between Whitby and Saltburn.

Moulton is a village of narrow winding lanes, lined by stone-built cottages and houses, nowadays with traffic calming and one-way systems.

This view looks north-east and immediately you see the contrast with most other villages in this book - this is a mainly brick built village.

At this time Warburton was a small village on the south bank of the Mersey, five miles west of Altrincham and twelve miles from Manchester.

Each of these photographs takes the eye closer to the village centre with the railway now in clear view.

The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green.A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.An iron pot containing a large number of coins of Edward the Confessor was found in

This is a section of the Trent and Mersey Canal lying to the west of the village. On the other side of the village is the famous Anderton Boat Lift, which was built in 1875 by E Leader Williams.

The ground was given to the village by the late Viscount Pirrie in the year this photograph was taken, and the village hall bearing his name, and which also serves as the pavilion, was built at the same

The Hall is situated close to the village green along Hadlow Road.

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

Village green, church and public house are all in close proximity, but the village atmosphere in Toddington was already under threat at the time of this photograph.

The pretty village of Kemsing, on the Pilgrims' Way, boasts St Edith's Well, which is just by the walled war memorial at this road junction.

Prior to 1582, documents referred to this village as 'Blechingley', meaning 'the ley (or clearing) of the Blaecci people', and its origins probably date back to the 7th or 8th century.

Also in the village is the very grand Fountaine Hospital, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, the architect of Castle Howard.

The village won the Best Kept Village Competition in 1965, hence the sign on the green.

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th- century church.

One of Berkshire's finest villages is Sutton Courtenay, with the cooling towers of Didcot Power Station a constant companion to the south.

This village at the entrance to the Trough of Bowland has officially been declared the nearest village to the centre of the British Isles. A telephone box marks the spot.

Captioned by Frith in the 1950s 'A Pretty Spot', this view looks north across a footbridge over a stream towards the eastern end of the village.

This charming view of the village of Heysham was taken from the cliff walk leading to Sandylands and Morecambe.

Tucked away in a very secluded corner below Heysham, this little village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ovretun; the name turns up very frequently in old documents, usually mentioning the