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Still a village school, this is the Delamere Church of England Primary School, with a little nursery in the building just beyond.

The windowless stone-built village lock-up. A surprising number of these old roundhouse lock-ups survive, many in the villages of neighbouring Derbyshire.

Woodbury's village green is rarely as empty of parked cars as it was in this day in the 1960s.

This photograph gives us some idea of the rural setting for this village, something of a constrast to the dense housing of the village itself.

Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

The village is listed in the Domesday Book as Bodeton. The great age of the market cross, with its uneven steps and remains of the punishment stocks, is apparent.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

Darent; it has become something of a commuter village today.

The higher part of Kilburn village, including the parish church of St Mary (which we can see in the background, centre) clusters around its large village green.

The wide main street of the village of Coxwold has not changed much since the days when Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy, was vicar from 1760 until his death in 1768.

Lying east of Pocklington, this village was bought in the 18th century by the 5th Duke of Devonshire. He sold it in 1845 to the railway entrepreneur George Hudson.

A meet of hounds at Halse, a charming old village to the north west of Taunton. In medieval times there was a branch of the Knights Hospitallers at Halse.

The village of Hinderwell lies between Easington and Runswick Bay. Here, in this delightful view of 1929, we see an early motorcar outside the Rectory.

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

Great Hucklow is a former lead mining village high on the White Peak plateau of the Peak District.

Down on the shore is the little village of Portwrinkle, another ex-pilchard fishing village.

The railway arrived in the village in 1850, and the 600yd-long viaduct carries the Blackburn to Clitheroe line through at a height of 70ft.

Our photographer was a busy man, and obviously spent a week or more travelling the area to capture the village scenes that we see here in our book, some eighty years on.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

Hazelbury Bryan is a scattered village, but the church stands on a prominent hilltop, so that it can be seen by villagers wherever they happen to be.

The village lies along the line of Fleam Dyke, an ancient defensive earthwork.

It looks for all the world as if someone has chopped the spire off a church and deposited it in the middle of the village. This is, however, the village cross, which was erected in 1820.