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An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797. This view looks south, away from the church.

Bolney is a quiet village, located just off the main London to Brighton trunk road.

Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important diary spanning eleven years of his life.

The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

Twenty-five miles from London, the village was an important staging post in the great days of horse-drawn coach traffic, and both Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Nelson passed through here.

In the distance a lone horseman rides into Lymm village as it basks in the hot sunshine which has compelled the draper, the ironmonger, and Whitelegg the grocer to put up protective awnings and blinds.

The village of Pyle is situated north of Porthcawl just off the M4 between Bridgend and Port Talbot.

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

The village used to be in Derbyshire. Its industry was based on small engineering and the flour mill. The nearby priory was here from as early as 1267.

The Village 1940 Beyond Williton, our route follows the western edge of the Quantock Hills back towards Taunton.

Five miles east of Sleaford, Heckington is a village widely known for its superb 14th-century Decorated Gothic parish church with its 185 foot high spire, rich carvings and sinuous window tracery.

The village's name means 'a settlement by the River Cocker'. The village has rows of sandstone cottages and a number of farms. It was self-sufficient in the 19th century.

The 19th-century squire, Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, had every window in the village altered to have rounded lights under an exterior arch in the belief that this would bring good luck.

It is no surprise that Stanton features on chocolate box lids, as it is everyone's idea of how a Cotswold village should look.

This view shows Middle Street and Village Road, between the flagstone-topped terraces of high raised pavements, looking towards the 1863-built spire of Holy Trinity parish church in the northern

The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.

The Village 1902 Here we look south down the main road into the village as it nears the estuary.

Just over two miles east of Upper Boddington, Byfield is a village that expanded with the arrival of the railway. This view is on the High Street, part of the A361 Banbury to Daventry road.

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.

Moving west to the county's boundary with Yorkshire, our tour reaches Harworth, an old greatly expanded village lying east of the Tickhill to Blyth road.