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The bastard son of Richard III is buried at the ancient village church.

This part of Acock's Green is known as 'the village', but the centre of the community is further east, nearer the railway station, which opened in 1852.

Entering the village from Clitheroe, the road dips to cross Heys Brook. Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

Shops and a post office overlook the junction in the centre of the village by the railway station. Just along Station Road, on the left by the chemist is the Marine Café.

Old Bridge Road c1955 The hilltop village of Bloxham has a striking parish church with an intricately designed late 14th-century tower and spire, possibly completed by the same masons who worked

The ferry is pulled by a chain across the Ouse; at this time villagers used the ferry to go to work in Over or to cycle to Cambridge.

In c1830 a new road skirting the parkland of Hinxton Hall was built, bypassing the village.

Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath

Two local residents, one mounted on an early motorbike, pass the time of day by the Prince of Wales pub in the centre of the village.

The village of Chain Bridge is on the River Usk.

Known for its world-famous zoo, the village has been carefully allowed to grow.

The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.

This imposing edifice, with a front porch of great style, is perhaps surprisingly grand for such a small village on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.

An ancient village, Wolviston lies close to Wynyard Hall, historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham

The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.

The village green was known as the heath, and on the left we can see the Heath Engineering Works. In the centre is the Institute, and the shop with the blind down was F Bromley, a butcher's.

Beside this part of the village green we see a grocer and newsagent's shop by the signpost pointing to Carnforth in one direction, Longridge in the other.

Yoxford was among the first villages in Suffolk to have its own particular sign, which stands by the A12.

When the mill was demolished the pond was filled in and grassed over for use as the village green - a generous act by two local benefactors.

The village has a Quaker burial ground and a former Methodist chapel. In the flood of 1686, there was a national appeal for help and assistance.

On our route towards Watchet we move inland to Old Cleeve, a village grouped round a triangle of narrow steep lanes and amazingly secluded.

This unforgettable village cupped in a hollow with a large wayside pond is the home of All Saints' Church.

Elmley Castle is one of those delightful villages lying around the foot of Bredon Hill. Little now remains of the castle itself, once the stronghold of the Beauchamp family.

Mitton means 'the village where the streams meet'. The Hodder and the Ribble meet here, and that is what gave the area its name.