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The house is not open to the public. The avenue of trees was damaged during the 1987 storm, and specimens were duly replaced.

His story 'The Fox' was first published in 1923 and is set at Bailey Farm, which Lawrence based on Grimsbury Farm just outside the village.

The village of Northchapel, which is situated 5 miles north of Petworth, was formerly a chapelry of Petworth, and only became a parish in its own right after an Act of Parliament in 1693.

The village sits at the confluence of a number of ancient routes, the most important of which is the Fosse Way.

The main A59 road from Liverpool to Preston runs through the centre of the village, and at the far end, rises over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Port Isaac made front page news in 1999 when local farmer Robert Sloman's Landrover went out of control on the steep hill behind the village.

The Stilton Cheese public house takes it name from the famous blue cheese. It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

Four miles from Stroud, picturesque Painswick titles itself 'Queen of the Cotswolds'.

Substantially rebuilt by the Earl of Leicester in the 1880s, the village provides homes and a community for his staff. The far right building was the Reading Room; today it is the social club.

It is no surprise that Stanton features on chocolate box lids, as it is everyone's idea of how a Cotswold village should look.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, is this large factory which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s.

Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.

In the 1940s, Mrs Chadwick's tearoom gave servicemen teas under Chestnut Cottage's thatch.

Farningham is just a short distance from Eynsford, set at another pretty crossing of the Darent between ridges of chalk hills.

The 'Cuckoo Trail' for cyclists, walkers and the disabled connects Horam to Heathfield and Polegate via the route of an old railway.

Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet moat

It is said that the first rumblings of the Luddite Movement were felt in Anstey with the breaking of the knitting frames; the village had expanded rapidly to accommodate an influx of workers.

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods. It was probably built in the 13th century, when the town of Swavesey was first established.

These splendid trees had already overseen the widespread development of substantial suburban houses south of the village and the station which had begun in the years following the First World War.

We can just see the old cottage of photograph 77066 again in its new location, on the left and partially concealed by the leafy tree.