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The area is known as Dunsley Bay, and Sandsend is really two villages. These old red-roofed houses on East Row are the first we reach if we are coming from Whitby.

Here we see the mundane suburban face of the village, which has grown around a core of rather special later medieval houses and the Rothley Temple, built on Knights Templar land in c1315.

The Witterings are seaside villages of bungalows, chalets and caravans on the Selsey peninsula, a flat area south of Chichester. The Norman church of the Assumption was rebuilt in 1875.

The sleepy centre of this village, with its picturesque half-timbered cottages and winding lane, was captured from a point near the ruins of the old 14th-century church, which was partly demolished by

St Marwenna's church sits on a ridge of high ground on the edge of the village. It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. He wrote some of his best known poetry here.

This charming village contains one of the most perfect examples of a Saxon church. Dating from the 8th century, All Saints also has a 15th-century tower; the church was restored in 1871.

The 15th-century tower of All Saints, the Anchor pub and the elevation of the bridge, which is medieval in origin with 19th-century additions, add up to a classic photograph of the entrance to the village

Whitewashed houses and pantiled roofs characterise this photograph of the deserted Main Street of Green Hammerton, a small village in the Vale of York and on Roman Dere Street, just off the main A59 Harrogate

Kirkhead Tower c1965 The folly of Kirkhead Tower stands on a headland overlooking the small coastal village of Allithwaite, which takes its name from a Norse settler named Eilifr.

Neatly-kept gardens and colourful flowerbeds brighten the station buildings at Burgh-by-Sands, a small village near the mouth of the Eden on the Solway Firth.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

This is the seaside end of the road through the village.

Like so many other White Peak villages, Tideswell was founded on the dual wealth won from farming and lead mining.

A charming village scene that has scarcely changed at all in over 30 years.The old war-time nissen hut, at one time such a familiar sight in the British countryside, has gone, replaced by a car park

Guyden's Bakery (left) is a long-time landmark of the village; the front is 19th-century, but the building behind dates from the 18th century.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water, and the village church is a charming medieval survival. It is wonderful that such places have survived so well into the modern age.

Here we see harvest home in the village of Netherbury. Perhaps the harvesters have retreated to the Star Inn, seen in the centre of this picture, after their hard day's work.

The River Piddle winds beneath the chalk downlands of Dorset, giving its name to several villages along the way before reaching the sea at Poole Harbour.

The village is probably most famous as the home of the Bluebell Railway, a popular attraction since it came into private ownership in the early 1960s.

The chalk scars in the landscape beyond are a reminder that this is one of the Medway- side villages that owes much to the 19th-century cement industry.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813.

The village school's most famous old boy is Sydney Wooderson, a Blackheath Harrier, who in 1937 ran a mile in just four minutes and 6.4 seconds.

It is about one and a half miles from the main village. It is reputed that one of its former landlords was named A Herring - most appropriate for a riverside hostelry!