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By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks

The path to the falls goes up from Buttermere village; the falls - in fact a series of cascades - are hidden in a tree-lined gorge.

Alfington is a tiny village alongside the river Otter, north of Ottery St Mary.

Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.

Those in Wellington (not to mention all the smaller towns and villages) refused point blank.

These cottages are just a few of around forty built around a triangular village green for the Wroughton Estate; some are known to have housed the workers at Wilcot Manor House.

Perched on a windy hill a mile or two north of Portscatho, Gerrans has been called a 'plain-looking village'.

Cadgwith is one of Cornwall's prettiest fishing villages, and huddles between steep cliffs a few miles north of the Lizard. The beach is a clutter of boats and fishing paraphernalia.

This bleak, wind-blasted village, the most westerly in England, is known locally as Church Town. The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

Hobby Drive was completed just before his death in 1829 by Sir James Hamlyn as part of his project to landscape the cliffs to the east of the village.

The bus is heading for Linton, a scenic village in the Yorkshire Dales.

We are not far from Sandford Mill here: a view which, despite its proximity to the ever-expanding Chelmer Village, has so far escaped development.

The duck pond on Writtle Green is still the jewel in this village's crown - though these days it has rails around it.

Horningsham is a beautiful village, still retaining an almost feudal air.

Our photographic tour starts some four or five miles from the traditional source of the Thames in this delightful Cotswold stone village, through which the young river flows as little more than a vigorous

Now it is now just an attractive riverside village. The church is 14th-century, though there are some traces of Saxon work, and is dedicated to St Mary.

A market town rather than a village, Watton has a constant stream of traffic through its bustling centre.

Turvey village owes its character to estate building, much of it by the Higgins family, whose Castle Ashby-style mausoleum of about 1847 is in the churchyard.

The road to Brynmawr winds around the hillside from the village of Gellifelyn, on the right.

It stood on the corner of Station Road and St Mildred's Road, known by older villagers as Vicarage Lane.

This pretty village was the scene of a major disaster in 1952 when the East and West Lyn rivers, swollen by torrential rain, cascaded down demolishing all in their path.

There is a pub in the village with the lovely name of the Spinner and Bergamot - apparently it was named for two local racehorses.

Little Budworth is normally a very peaceful little village.

This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.