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Approaching the village from the west along the Botley Road, we see on the right All Saints' Church, built in 1836 in Early English style. The village war memorial is on the left of the picture.

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

The village is more well-known for its much-visited stately home, Penshurst Place - its entrance arch can be seen at the bottom of the lane.

A view of the village of Whitekirk.

hen travelling south from Leatherhead, we pass on our right the fine house in Norbury Park; it is said to be one of the loveliest estates in Surrey.

These two photographs of the village High Street give some indication of the constantly-flowing stream of traffic which passes the small, half-timbered Black Horse pub with its adjacent wine merchant

Since this picture was taken, the 'village' has undergone further housing developments which mean that it has become a suburb of Abergavenny.

The name of this small settlement on the slopes of Wansfell Pike between Windermere and the Kirkstone Pass means exactly what it says - 'the trout stream' - and it stands above a stream with the same name

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

Here we see the old bridge and the mill.

Graffham is known in the area for its long, winding main street.

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

Here we see a section of Hadrian's Wall near the village of Gilsland. 73 miles long, with seventeen forts, mile-castles and turrets, the wall was one of a number of linear defences built to designate

Some of the soldiers who were killed in the furious battle of 1644 are buried in the village churchyard.

Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.

Mark Twain expected his perfect piece of England to have a castle and the odd ruin.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

Here the old village lock-up is pictured with two boys. The building, whose simple Doric doorcase we see here, stands near the council offices at the end of Glynne Way, and dates from the 1740s.

The Village c1955 Shotley Gate, at the very end of the Shotley Peninsula, was home to the former HMS 'Ganges', the Royal Navy's training school.

The parish church of Clewer village, now part of Windsor, St Andrew’s retains its village character in its old traditional setting.

The Church 1890 In this picture the ancient village church looks brand new; it was.

When this photograph was taken, Binfield was no more than a sleepy village.

A fine example of a village stocks is to be seen at West Monkton, sheltered beneath the yews of the churchyard. Notice the whipping post on the right.

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