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East of photograph N251008, Frith's photographer looks along Church Street with the 15th-century tower of St Michael's church on the right. Unusually, its lower stage is open and serves as a porch.

To the north of Pitminster is Poundisford Park, once a hunting ground for the Bishops of Winchester.

It was a popular place to live in Victorian times, containing several 'gentlemen's seats and neat villas'.

The building on the left, now without its cover of ivy, is the Herbert Arms. One member of the family was Lord Herbert, an historian, philosopher and diplomat in the 16th century.

To the west of Farley Heath and Blackheath, the hamlet of Blackheath grew up in Victorian times.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green.Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

These half-timbered houses, overlooked by the 15th-century church of St Mary the Virgin, were once homes for local tradesmen from the Jacobean Chilham Castle estate.

Dominating the village is the 15th-century church of St Oswald's, its tower gifted by Robert Washington.

The village pump was possibly introduced to improve water quality after the typhoid epidemics of the late 19th century. We can just see the bright water of the pond.

T A Wilkinson the chemist is next door to the shop selling Wall's ice cream with rustic furniture outside. The village gets its name from a Viking, Sigward.

Apart from the more modern cars parked at the kerbs, little has changed in the village.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

The old village of Ealing was south of the Broadway, with the parish church beyond Ealing Green.

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

East of the M25 and the older River Wey Navigation, Byfleet is a suburban village; although it is built along winding lanes, it is architecturally disappointing.

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

The River Eye flows through the village on its way to join the River Dickler, which in turn feeds the Windrush to the south of Bourton-on-the-Water.

The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.

This view of the village was taken in the days before its castle, once the home of Anne Boleyn, became internationally famous and attracted hordes of visitors.

There is little apart from the Mini van parked in front of the terraced house on the bottom right of the picture to give away the date of this view, which looks north over Abergynolwyn.

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

Sandway Bridge carries Sandway Lane across the meadows from the village of Frampton and over the River Frome to the hamlet of Southover.