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Several still live in the fields above the village, in happy retirement; donkeys, that is, not the postmen!

Sandiway is now permanently linked with Cuddington: the two villages were officially joined together in 1935.

Clydach is a small village on the road from Brecon to Swansea. The area has been mined for coal for at least 300 years.

Ancient heathland surrounds the landward side of the village, but much of its coastal strip has been sacrificed to the expansion of the oil industry during the 20th century.

Tannery Corner, in the Airedale village of Silsden, takes it name from the tannery of William Laycock and Son, seen in the right background of this picture.

Despite an attempt to develop the town as a seaside resort, Mundesley remains essentially a village. One of the attractions of this coast was the health-giving quality of the sea air.

Studland has the reputation of being one of the prettiest villages in England, with unspoiled cliffs to the west and the wilderness of Studland Heath, now an important nature reserve, to the east.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Lulworth was already a popular residential area for the better-off, who may have originally fallen in love with the village on a holiday visit.

Until the commercial growth of towns such as Yeovil and Bridport, Beaminster was an important town for neighbouring villages.

The Village Pond c1955 A tranquil view of Rottingdean pond, replete with model sailing boats hardly stirring above their reflections on a warm summer's day.

None of the villagers seen here could have imagined what changes lay ahead for their community and the surrounding area when they posed for this charming Edwardian photograph.

This part of the village is separated from the rest by the stream.

The Church of England Primary School, founded by Thomas Benet of Salthrop in 1743, has been part of village life for over 250 years.

Some were used for the cottage industry of glove making, but most were farmhouses, and the village is still an agricultural settlement with a working farm at its centre.

In the village is a 19th-century church, and these peaceful woods are now the property of the National Trust.

This is perhaps the most delightfully named village in the county. Here the River Mole cuts into the steep slope of Box Hill near the Burford Bridge Hotel.

Although the village now has a number of modern housing developments, the church still stands in a rural location.

The attractive heath, with its colourful heathers and gorse, reach down to a village boasting several buildings constructed of exquisite brickwork.

In 1987 the local newspaper reported that the Causeway was reproduced in a model village outside Canberra in Australia!

The village is noted for its granite quarries, which furnished stone for the Duke of Wellington's sarcophagus in St Paul's Cathedral.

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

The openness of the village is readily apparent in this photograph: it ranges along a brook, criss-crossed by modest Urban District Council railed footbridges.

This view shows the upper part of the village before it was altered by 20th-century developments. Behind we can see the wind-shorn north Cornish scenery with its treeless field hedges.

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints' Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.