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The memorial seat commemorates the six agricultural labourers who met beneath the sycamore tree (centre) in 1834, and were transported to Australia for taking an illegal oath during an initiation

There has been a beer house in the village for well over 200 years. The innkeepers were not choosey over how they obtained their spirits, and there was a great smuggling trade here.

Until 1935 there was a hand-pumped fire engine in the village. The school shut in 1945, and the pub disappeared in 1950.

On the left is Norman's grocery and general shop, now a newsagent's. The shop front now extends half the width of the building.

East and south of the church, the High Street has a number of good houses, including the 18th-century Elm Farmhouse in the distance.

This is the old heart of the village. The old King's Arms opened in 1749, and opposite it is the Black Bull, dating back to 1758.

Situated on precarious cliffs, the village has suffered greatly from erosion over the years.

This 15th-century gatehouse is in the village of Kingswood, one mile south of Wotton; it is part of the Cistercian abbey which existed here until the Dissolution.

Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.

For generations, Lever House has accommodated the main offices of Lever Brothers. Lever ensured that although they were closely linked, the factory and the village did not intrude on one another.

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

At the northernmost point away from Hailsham we reach Crowborough, a village that became a health resort in the 1870s when Lord Abergavenny followed the advice of a Dr Prince.

This former slate-mining village lies below Cadair Idris, cupped in the Dysynni valley between Tal-y-Llyn and Tywyn.

CHELFORD is better known as a village that is passed through rather than a destination in itself for it stands on an important crossroads, where the route between Manchester and the Midlands crosses

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

St Teresa's Convent was established in Effinghamhill House, a stucco early 19th- century mansion in the chalk hills two miles south of Effingham village.

The spire of St Mary's dominates the village and the surrounding countryside. It has overlooked pleasure, tragedy and, it is said, the supernatural.

In contrast with the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, the towns and villages of the east have become one continuous conurbation because of their proximity to the River Mersey and Liverpool.

The High Street may look quiet and rural, but five years earlier this street was pounded with traffic day and night.

Teffont, 10 miles west of Salisbury, is the combination of the villages of Teffont Evias and Teffont Magna; both have small churches maintained and still in use by the whole combined parish of

From Southwell the tour heads north-east back to the River Trent north of Newark and on to Sutton-on-Trent.

The village of Hampstead Norris nestles in a shallow valley, the buildings dominated by the short broad tower of St Mary's church in the background.

Caversham boasts a famous bridge spanning the Thames, first recorded as long ago as 1231.