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The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.

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

The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the

The shore line at Heysham is owned by Queen Elizabeth II. The concrete sea defence to Morecambe has been constructed, and provides a sort of primitive promenade.

The village of Slad sits in one of the loveliest valleys in Gloucestershire.

The village takes its name from the river that flows through the valley and from the earls of the de Vere family. This photograph is typical of the type of rural scene to be found in Essex.

An oasis between industrial Syston and unlovely Sileby, the scene has changed little over the years, apart from a stepping-up in volume of motorised traffic.

On the right, facing the village green, stands this old-world inn; the wide arch is the entry to a mews area for horse-drawn carts and carriages.

With a shortage of burial places in the capital, the London Necropolis Company bought 2,000 acres of heathland at Brookwood and laid out one-fifth of it as a cemetery.

The shelter with a handsome weather vane stands on the small village green.

This photograph shows the old village centre of Wallasey.

In the background (centre) is the Methodist chapel, a common feature of most former lead mining villages in the White Peak.

The half-timbered village hall, with its adjacent rows of almshouses, overlooks this peaceful scene with its curiously maternal architecture.

The small stone village of Beddgelert stands at the confluence of the Colwyn and Glaslyn rivers. It sits in the shadow of Snowdon, and is a favourite tourist spot.

Not to be confused with Old Knebworth (which one recent historian described as 'a village still faintly feudal in character'), the village of Knebworth is a busy commercial centre supplying the needs of

Tirley lies a few miles downstream from Tewkesbury on the Severn. The school was established by the church in 1842, and its design is typical of others found in villages hereabouts.

Carshalton's ponds, which are spring-fed and lead to the River Wandle, are a most attractive feature in the centre of the village.

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

The whole of Charlwood parish, formerly in Surrey, was annexed to Sussex for some years prior to 1974, and the southern part of the parish remains in Sussex.

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.

The parkland of 18th-century Welton Place sweeps south to the north bank of the Grand Union Canal, in its cutting leading to the east portal of the Braunston Tunnel.