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Tucked away among 'surroundings that are indescribably beautiful', boats nestle in the placid harbour waters of this picturesque village with its long, straggling street.

The 'Miners' Welfare' was the community and cultural centre for many South Yorkshire and other coal mining villages.

One of the prettiest villages in Dorset, Okeford Fitzpaine seems to have hardly changed since this photograph was taken nearly half a century ago.

On entering the county of Carmarthenshire, the unprepossessing village shown here is the first place on the itinerary.

High Street c1955 The water pump on the corner of the green is dated 1897 - the year of Queen Victoria's jubilee - when Newick was still a small village.

Warboys is a fen-edge village: the common pastures and fen were drained by acts of parliament in the late 18th century. The Horse and Harness pub advertises Huntingdon Ales.

Two little girls walk arm-in-arm across the tree-shaded ancient packhorse bridge which crosses Clapham Beck in the centre of the village.

Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery. The confectionery shop and the chemist's (right) are now private cottages.

It is lunch time in the village; the post office is closed, and the lady street vendor is resting on her cart.

In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns.

Exploring the dramatic coastline, pasto- ral countryside and delightful towns and villages never fails to make for a memo- rable holiday.

The small, relatively unspoilt village of Fernhurst lies on the Midhurst to Haslemere road in the north-west corner of Sussex.

A number of late medieval timber-framed thatched cottages remain, such as the one shown here; Magpie Cottage was, and is, a much photographed symbol of the village.

(Marion Hill) Woughton is one of the area's eighteen villages existing in the 11th century which were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086; thirteen of the villages became local centres for the new

The lane winds gently down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of white-washed cottages and bright spring flowers.

A century after his visit, the town had been transformed from a quiet village to a vibrant centre for the textile industry.

Originally built by Sir William Craven to link the village with Appletreewick, it has been rebuilt several times and is the only crossing in a six-mile length of the river.

Said to be the largest village in Northamptonshire, Irchester now has a population of more than 5,000.

The village scarcely seems despoiled by having so many admirers.

It is another of the village churches built of the limestone from the ridge that acts as a spine all the way through Lincolnshire from Stamford up to the river Humber.

This village is popular with visitors to Broadland, with St Catherine's Church and its beautiful hammer-beam roof and painted rood screen dating from 1493.

To the east of the village, we see a timeless view of an industry wiped out by the growth of the national railway system.

Beyond the village green is the Fawkham Bakery, its painted sign smothering the broad gable. Fawkham's church, repaired and reseated by the Victorians, has a wooden tower and Norman windows.

The steep descent to the end of a lane gives a certain isolation to Polkerris, and this early view shows perfectly how the little village clings to the valley bottom behind a beach and stone pier.