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This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

The village, which stands opposite Cliveden Woods, is also famous for a sarsen boulder known as the Tarry Stone, which has occupied different positions in the High Street over the years.

Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the river Medway.

At the time when this photograph was taken, the village green at Malham was the scene of regular sheep sales attended by farmers from the surrounding fells.

At the time when this photograph was taken the village green at Malham was the scene of regular sheep sales attended by farmers from the surrounding fells.

The Village 1909 A handsome farm cart stands in the yard of a timber-framed two-storey building, in this small hamlet on the road between Tenterden and Hythe.

Downderry village is alongside the coast road in the distance.

The Victorian poet Horace Smith wrote these lines on leaving the village: 'Farewell, sweet Binstead!

Corby was originally a village, but by 1950 its population had increased enormously; during that year it was given New Town status.

This is a classic English village setting, with rows of cottages overlooking a green and an old red telephone box.

The baker's with its characteristic 'Hovis' sign is still a baker's, and Duston retains other shops, unlike many Northamptonshire villages.

Worthing, yet another fishing village turned seaside resort, developed in fits and starts with little overall coherence but some attractive accents.

During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.

Flemish weavers were encouraged to settle in the locality, as they were in several other Wealden villages.

This interesting old building of uncertain vintage is located in a small village near Tenterden. The door where a first floor may have been suggests considerable alteration.

All we can see in this photograph are cottages and the village shop. It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982. The last bare-fisted boxing match was held in Wadhurst in 1863.

The old school sign in the centre of the photograph warns motorists that the village school is on the left.

At the south end of the village is Townend, a typical Lakeland statesman's house, now in the care of the National Trust.

He lived for nearly 30 years at Brantwood, opposite the village on the eastern shore of the lake, and preferred to be buried here, rather than to have a grander tomb in Westminster Abbey.

A path leads from the tiny village across the fields to low cliffs above this quiet beach.

They owned the greengrocer's shop next door, and having amalgamated the two premises, continue as the village bakers.