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The Victorian poet Horace Smith wrote these lines on leaving the village: 'Farewell, sweet Binstead!

Behind the chestnut tree in the village square, once known as Waterloo Square, the shops were originally a small row of cottages, which were apparently used as a quartermaster's stores and to billet soldiers

The weatherboarded Chequers pub is tucked away in a corner of the dog-leg at the top of the village street, with the early 15th-century church tower rising above the surrounding tiled roofs.

Norton High Street is one of the surprise features in Teesside, with several elegant period houses nestling behind the trees which line the road verges.

In 1862 George Charnley Dewhurst, a wealthy Manchester cotton magnate, bought the Oughtrington estates and became a benefactor to the village.

The lime tree, shown on the 1846 Tithe map, was uprooted in an accident in December 1971. However, it was included in the village sign in 1973, and a new tree is growing nearby.

St Peter's Church was completely Gothicised in the mid 19th century. The roof and main walls of the old church were retained and the walls encased in flint.

It is hard to believe that this narrow road was once part of one of the major highways of England which had linked London and Chester since medieval times.

Longdon's church, seen here behind the trees, has a tower and spire dating from the 14th century. Much of the rest of the building was replaced in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Once known as Fyfield Street, or just The Street, this end of the village now takes its name from The Queen's Head pub.

The village church is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and parts of it date back to the 13th century. It actually stands inside the grounds of Clandon Park.

That useful commodity fuller's earth, a non-plastic clay that has been used for centuries to clean woven woollen cloth, and more recently in the refinement of lubricating oil, was dug

The shop on the right of this photograph is Hermitage Post Office and Stores. Today the speed limit through the village is thirty miles per hour, not forty.

An unusually quiet picture is presented by Toddington's village green.

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.

This view of Ombersley's main street gives an idea of the range of facilities in the village.

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

Debenham, with its attractive tree-lined street, lies close to the source of the River Deben.

On the right of the photograph is an advert for Player's, seen all over the country at the time when this picture was taken.

In contrast to the rest of Corfe Mullen, the lower part of the village around St Hubert's Church has changed very little, and the Old Mill even less.

George Horner's grocer's shop (right) has become an art gallery, and the pumps have gone from the garage.

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun. The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station.The 15th-century church is on the hillside.

The people of Gawsworth are very proud of an 18th-century occupant of the village. His name was Samuel 'Maggoty' Johnson, and he was the last professional jester in England.