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The original house, owned by the Napier family, burnt down in 1742, and the wealthy Humphrey Sturt, who had married an heiress, inherited the estate in 1765.

The photographer has now moved up to the parish church to catch this lovely village scene.

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

The village expanded with the boot and shoe works in the later 19th century, but the original stone village survives.

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

Pevsner likened Hamble to a West Country fishing village, and he was right to make the comparison.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'.

From the Hanneys the route heads along the A338 road towards Oxford, turning right onto the A415 at Frilford; heading back towards Abingdon, our last stop is in Marcham village.

The area now called Ottershaw was once a royal hunting ground within Windsor Forest.

Three miles inland from Hornsea, Seaton was an estate village surrounding the old manor house. It has two village greens and a pond.

The village lies three miles inland along what passes for a ridge in this flat country between the Wolds and the sand dunes.

This spacious village was built around the estate of the Coates family, who lived at Helperby Hall.

Corfe Mullen is one of the largest parishes in Dorset, but until the middle of the 20th century it was a modest village.

Since the Second World War this village has grown.

The original village used to be up this gated lane higher on the moors.

The village children crossed these fields each day to go to the Elementary School, which was built in 1878.

The lane, still a woodland track higher up, leads from Porlock Church into Hawk Combe.

This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (centre).

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

The thatched cottage in the foreground has a distinctly Dutch look to it - hardly surprising, given that an army of Dutchmen under Cornelius Vermuyden was responsible for draining the Fens in the 17th

The village of Seabrook has now merged with the town of Hythe, but at the time of this photograph was quite separate.

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

Sunbury-on-Thames was only incorporated into Surrey in the administrative changes which took place in 1965, but the village dates back to Anglo-Saxon times.

A settlement since the Iron Age, with the Romans and Anglo-Saxons leaving artefacts as evidence of their time at Bourton, the village uses its river as a focal point for such activities as setting the