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The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments. However, there is still a good view from the Norman St Margaret's Church.

A couple of old villagers pass the time of day with a youngster in the West Cumbrian village of Gosforth.

The ivy-clad cottages facing the village green were built in the 19th century for agricultural workers, and are an example of the general improvement in housing for estate workers.

The Tannery is no more, but the buildings have been converted to residential use. Above the white roofed building, The Jubilee Parish Hall, is an area of land that was actually a tennis court.

Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry. The village is set on the hilly north side of the young River Nene. Little has changed.

In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed

Here we are looking east towards the hill down to the Hamble River. On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants.

As well as the parish church and the village cross there are a couple of interesting memorials in the churchyard.

Cadnam, or Cadenham, stands at an important road junction at the north-western corner of the New Forest; sooner or later every traveller in the locality is bound to pass through the village.

Looking at this beautiful 16th-century thatched cottage, it is not difficult to see what attracted Kenneth Graham, author of The Wind in The Willows, and Dick Francis, ex-jockey and thriller writer, to

Farleigh Hungerford's post office closed in the 1990s, but the village retains a school, a church and a pub.

The village store faces the war memorial on the green, which appears to have been fenced off. Surely this was not protection from vandals!

The ford that gave Allerford its name lies beside an ancient, two- arched packhorse bridge.

Church Stile is the name of the road which goes around the parish church.

The village is home to both the College and the Shuttleworth Trust.

Mock Tudor villas were just beginning to spread out from the suburbs of Sheffield on to the former green fields of Hathersage when this photograph was taken.

The Swan Hotel 1926 The Swan Hotel stands on the outskirts of the village of Grasmere, on the A591, and was formerly a coaching inn on the main road between Windermere and Keswick.

A small village, built to house Parham Estate employees, Cootham is situated near to the foot of the downs.?

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Another fishing village, Polkerris had one of the largest fish cellars in Cornwall, so big that it was known as a fish palace.

There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

The church is to the right, overlooking the small Baptist chapel with a small pinnacle on each corner of the front. It has a large graveyard.

It is obviously a quiet time of day in this Cheshire village.

This photograph shows the old village centre, looking from the Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels. Carnforth Co-operative Society looked after the villagers' grocery needs.