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There is a large parish notice board on the wall behind the lych gate that gives entrance to the churchyard.

Here we see the River Itchen flowing through Bishopstoke. In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

Strete stands on the winding lanes which form the highway between Dartmouth and the villages clustered around the great freshwater lake of Slapton Ley.

Set between the Thames and the Medway, Grain was once an island. Now it is connected to the mainland by road.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green. Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

We are in the centre of the village; this view looks north along Church Street with the churchyard wall on the left.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.

The wooden plaque above the door of the cottage on the right proclaims it as John Bunyan's home.

Cheltenham's famous racecourse is named Prestbury Park after the village that is situated at its outskirts. Prestbury was home to Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey of his age.

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

The war memorial remembers those killed in both the First and Second World Wars.

The church is to the west of the village, adjacent to the entrance to Wrentham Hall.

Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.

The parish of Peasmarsh is situated between the River Rother on the north and the River Tillingham on the south. The village, about three miles north-west of Rye, lies on the Beckley to Rye road.

Corfe Mullen stands on the alluvial flood plain of the River Stour, surrounded originally by the wild heathlands of south-east Dorset.

The Red Lion is the building on the right. Like so many other local timber buildings, it now has a brick façade.

The post office is the black and white half-timbered building on the left.

Heading toward the village and Brenchley, with the Gun at the top of the hill, on the right-hand side we have a pond with railings and a water trough in front.

The café is in the building at the top of the lane, with a post office and grocer's under the signs.

A mile or two outside the village sits Harvington Hall. It is a wonderfully evocative Tudor mansion surrounded by a moat, which we see here.

The village school opened in 1851, but its role has changed several times over the years. In 1904 it became a mixed school of infants, juniors and seniors.

However, the village does have the county's oldest church.

This village was anciently known as Eightham, and was once a market town, with a Whit-Wednesday fair called Cockscomb Fair.

From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire.