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The Village Hall at Hunsdon was originally the school until the building of the new school in 1924 at a cost of £4000.

Abbot Bankes, accompanied by more than a score of monks, forcefully evicted the entire population of the village, and then proceeded to raze the village to the ground; he left the villagers to their own

The stone-mullioned windows and sturdy, stone-built construction mark the Bay Horse Inn in the tiny North Yorkshire village of Gayles, north of Richmond, as a building of some antiquity.

The Village c1955 The two principal churches in the village at this time were the Roman Catholic Our Blessed Lady Immaculate, which dated from the late 1870s, and Holy Trinity, which had been

Haverthwaite village consists of two parts, but they are close together. The village pump on the left, by Pump Cottage, is dated 1765 and bears the initials BB.

The beautiful village of Bredon stands at the foot of Bredon Hill, and is deservedly on everyone's list of favourite English villages.

In front of the Mitre Tavern stands this memorial to the 13 men of the village who fell in the Great War. Cottages here date from the mid 18th century.

Set in the heart of Charnwood Forest, this pretty village was a favourite destination for Edwardian trippers, and features on many postcards.

The green, on the far side of the village from the church and overlooked by the village school, is now enclosed with a low wooden fence.

The older houses of this charming little village, like many others on this coast, are built hanging precariously onto a cliff. The villagers once relied almost solely on fishing.

Albrighton is a very pretty name for a village. Actually there are two Albrightons in Shropshire - the meanings for which originally differed.

Three-storied 18th-century town houses, including the bow-windowed front of the Sykes Temperance Hotel, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

Weeping willows overhang the village pond and its coop for the ornamental waterfowl; they lie at the heart of a village whose history stretches back to Roman times.

This village is well known for its charming thatched cottages and historical connection to the Potto family, millers and nonconformists; a bronze memorial has been recently erected in the corner of the

The colonnaded porch on the left belongs to the Village Institute, a kind of working men's club, which originally catered for the many lead miners who lived in the village.

The village of half-timbered and weatherboarded buildings clusters around the green, known locally as 'the Heath', but the village church itself is nearly two miles away.

Along with Great Haywood, this village was where the inhabitants of Shugborough were relocated, as their own village was gradually absorbed into the parkland surrounding Shugborough Hall.

Two young lads play hide-and-seek with the photographer behind a tree in the centre left of the village green. The village stores stand in the centre background across the white-railed green.

This photograph shows the village of Streatley on the left bank of the Thames. An old wooden bridge linked the village with Goring on the opposite bank until it was replaced in the 1920s.

The village lies under the shadow of Hordown Hill, a prominent local viewpoint.

A little further upstream we come to the village of Otterton, built around one long main street.

Also in the village is St Hilda's Church, dating from the 12th century. The Benedictine abbey, a mile to the east of the village, is now a centre for education as Ampleforth College.

This view shows the solid Georgian façade of the Wheatsheaf Hotel in the Wensleydale village of Carperby, halfway between Hawes and Leyburn.

The other solid building in the village was the old vicarage, a former much-altered pele- tower with a barrel-vaulted ground floor.