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The ancient name for the village is Barelegh (meaning 'wasteland'), but lush meadows now support flocks of sheep.

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

The main entrance to the pub is at the other side, but there is a gate giving access from the churchyard.

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

Nestling in the shelter of Lythe Bank, the ancient village holds the homes of many of the men who worked in the alum industry and on local estates.

The name Accrington means 'community where the acorns grow'.

This lovely village extends from Highwood Hill to the north to Mill Hill East underground station in the south.

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

Belford is just one of many places in Northumberland that suffered during the cross-border raids that were a feature of life in the North for several centuries.

By the 1920s, many smiths had ceased to tend horses, but tended cars instead – they had made the transition from farrier to motor mechanic.

Not far from Stroud, the village of Chalford clings to the steep wooded hillside of the Golden Valley.

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

The A50 bypass now divides the village from its castle, of which only the motte survives; the remainder was demolished in the later 12th century.

Re-crossing the Trent at Gunthorpe, the route turns back towards Nottingham along the busy A612 to Burton Joyce, where the river sweeps close to the road.

Here we have the old centre of the village, now by-passed by the main road. The Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels with its free-standing spire dominates the centre of our photograph.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

Piddletown was the official name of the village until Major-General Charles William Thompson succeeded in having it changed after the Great War.

The white-painted single-storey building in the middle of the row of shops originally had a thatched roof and was Irby's only shop, doubling also as the village post office.

The 450-acre Finningley Park Estate was sold in 1935, and within a year a new RAF airstrip was built on its flat land.

The placename is derived from Haecc or gate. The village is on the north-west edge of Pinner Park, itself a 14th-century deer park owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

East of Camberley, the route moves on to the villages between Bagshot and Guildford along the A322 on the east side of the sandy heathland of the Bagshot Sands; on the map we see army firing

Monton had been a separate village until the incorporation of Eccles, when it was taken under the new council's wing. Monton Green is also the name of the road in our photograph.