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Children from Yew Tree Farm pose outside their gate for the photographer - a major event in this quiet village, which is sited well off the main Leyburn road.

Tucked between Crummock Water and Buttermere lake, the village is set in imposing Lakeland scenery.

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

But for centuries the village was the location of a substantial monastery. Only a few ruins and the tithe barn remain.

This is a small village situated in the heart of Thanet, overlooking Minster Marshes. It is well-known for its wonderful old church, which has towers built by the Saxons and Normans.

Tealby has the reputation of being Lincolnshire's most beautiful village, and as beauty is in the eye of the beholder it may well be, as it truly is picturesque.

Cattle near the water suggest a hot summer's day in the village of Carrog. The fine stone bridge of 1661 has yet to experience the heavy traffic of more recent times.

The village is in a Conservation area, with plenty of brick-built thatched houses in its centre.

Althorne is a long village above the River Crouch. Connected to London by rail, it manages to combine a commuting population with a number of working farms.

It hosted the annual Peachey Quoits Cup Championship - Mr Peachey was the owner of some nurseries in the village.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

With no village centre to speak of, except where the Gothic/Tudor-style Hautboy Inn stands, Ockham is nevertheless a pleasant community of leafy lanes.

A number of caravan sites were established in Borth after the Second World War, multiplying the population of the village in summer by many times its winter number.

Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop. Between the Victorian brick buildings is a small thatched cottage with a mansard roof.

Little Common was an isolated village to the west of Bexhill until the depredations of the 20th century forced its development. The Wheatsheaf is an old-established inn restored in about 1900.

The shop with the telephone kiosk outside, the van, and the electricity supply lines dispel some of the timelessness that clings to one of the area's more remote villages, where The Bell inn has refreshed

Until 1910 the village was part of the estate of the Duke of Bedford, who was responsible for many of the buildings on the High Street.

In the 1950s the majority of village inns in this pastoral land would have catered almost entirely for locals and the occasional passing tourist.

Interesting that the Post Office is spelled without the hyphens, but spellings, as we have noted, are a peculiar Welsh idiosyncrasy and every town, village and street can have a slightly or totally dissimilar

As we have seen even the smallest colliery village wherever it may be in the Rhondda Valleys has its own park. This one looks more suited to the youngsters of the area with its swings and slide.

Chigwell, situated on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

He died in his own village, probably in a field opposite the school.

On the left, Mr Courtis the cobbler has arrived in the village in his ornate, glass-windowed coach.