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The church of St Leonard is perched on a steep slope just below the walls of the castle, overlooking the village.

There are two Benthams, High and Lower, and this view looks down Mount Pleasant from the village cross in High Bentham.

There are two Albrightons in Shropshire, the meanings for which differed: one was Aethelbeorht's farmstead (this village), and the other was Eadbeorht's farmstead.

In 1885 Solihull was described as a ‘very pleasant village, but a few miles distant’.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

The old village of Constantine was home to the miners and quarrymen who worked the granite for which the parish was famous - small wonder that the walls of some of the cottages were solidly built.

From the village of Cawsand, at the entrance to Plymouth Sound, the seas stretch out to Penlee Point, where the famous hooter alerted fog-bound sailors to the perils of this treacherous coast.

Pronounced 'white'em', this is one of Oxfordshire's prettiest villages.

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

Despite its proximity to Harlow and the M11, Sheering still retains the appearance of a village and a sense of community.

At the far end of the lane is the Portloe United Church, and just this side of it are the two arched openings of the old village limekiln.

The village grew with the industries that sprang up and prospered alongside the river and the navigation. These included Unwins print works, a tannery, the gravel pits, and three laundries.

One of several villages on Herefordshire's 'black and white trail', Eardisland has also been voted one of the prettiest in the country.

A charming village scene that has scarcely changed at all in over 30 years.The old war-time nissen hut, at one time such a familiar sight in the British countryside, has gone, replaced by a car park

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and

A spring flows beside the village street in Fulking, and on the side of the wellhouse is this text: 'He sendeth springs into the valley which run among the hills.

The most distinctive feature of the church is its curious 'candle-snuffer' two-tier steeple, but the village also remembers that in 1560, its vicar was Edmund Drake, father of Francis Drake.

Now that most traffic by-passes this picturesque village, visitors can once again enjoy views like this, although it is seldom as quiet as here.

This is an idyllic scene, which belies the harshness of life in Cornish fishing villages in past times.

architecturally busy Tudorbethan house, built after 1871, is now (in 2000) a hotel and conference centre set in tranquil parkland; that parkland came into being through the 1440s destruction of a large village

Down river, the village now runs past the house with the quay all the way to the next point, on which stands the Yealm Hotel.

Sheep farming in this area started from a time in the 15th century when the people of villages such as Ingarsby were ejected, and the more profitable sheep were moved in by the monks of Leicester Abbey

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.

Once an old fishing village, it was developed in the mid 1700s as the earliest coastal and seabathing resort.