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Some of the buildings in the village are built from a grey stone quarried from the fuller's earth pits.

Today the speed limit through the village is thirty miles per hour, not forty. Lyons Cakes and Brooke Bond Tea are among the items advertised outside the shop.

Bulphan was always a smallish village. According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

This village sprawls around the lanes of the surrounding countryside of the Blackmoor Vale as though not quite sure where it wants to be.

The village street curves around the foot of Bindon Hill as it approaches the cove, with the Cove Hotel next to the thatched cottages on the left.

The nearby quarries - and much of Binstead's villagers must have worked in them when they were active - provided the stone for the cathedrals at Chichester and Winchester.

The pretty village of Calbourne lies among the downlands of the Isle of Wight. Its lovely Early English church boasts many fine monuments and is among the oldest on the Island.

The survival of so many timber buildings is a reminder that by the 17th and 18th centuries, the village's fortunes had declined.

This village sprawls around the lanes of the surrounding countryside of the Blackmoor Vale as though not quite sure where it wants to be.

The many bays and inlets of Connemara are dotted with little harbours and villages. One of the largest is Roundstone, situated on the coast road between Recess and Clifden.

It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.

To the west of the village is a labyrinth of man-made caverns from which the stone for Exeter Cathedral was taken. The Quarry Caves are now an exciting tourist attraction.

The road leading up the cliff from the village looks a steep, arduous walk. To the far left of the road, a lone camper has pitched a tent on a piece of grassy land.

As payment, the villagers were exempt from market and road tolls.

In spite of the cars, it has a village feel to it, with pedestrians and cyclists unaffected by traffic. The British Lion public house next to the Estcourt Dairy is early 18th-century.

The village and countryside around inspired his most famous book, 'Cider with Rosie'. Upon visiting, one can easily see the reason for such inspirational writing.

Although surrounded by a patchwork of fields, Widecombe is a real moorland village, and the skyline is dominated by the tors: centre right is Bonehill Rocks, to the left is Bell Tor and on the

Marske is an attractive and unusual Swaledale village, neither nuclear nor linear, nestling in a fold of hills just above the River Swale.

He acquired fame and affection for the mouth-watering tea-parties he gave for local villagers, children and New Forest gypsies.

Low Row is one of several pretty villages which mark the length of Swaledale, many people's favourite among the Yorkshire Dales, with its spectacular scenery and long history of lead mining.

Standing on a steep hillside north-west of Ashford, and with commanding views of the Weald, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family.

The village is dominated by the parish church with its 15th-century flint tower; it is surrounded by the ruins of the priory founded here in the time of King John by Sir Ralph Mainwaring.

One of the attractions of England's villages is how each one seems to play a part in the greater history of these islands.

Dorset villages such as Abbotsbury had changed little since the days of Thomas Hardy until the middle of the last century, when farming practices changed and tourism increased.