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The small village of Horsey next the Sea has a delightful Saxon church which has succeeded in its fight to remain open.

Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, is this large factory which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s.

There was once an old village of Overstone near to the grandiose main mansion, but this was moved in 1821 and estate cottages built along the boundary.

Caldbeck village is situated alongside the Scandale Beck near Ravenstonedale, on the northern flanks of the Howgill Fells, in an area rich in prehistory.

With Kipling's 'blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs' surrounding it, the village runs up a valley from the sea, climaxing beyond the High Street on the Green with its pond, where Kipling lived.

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.

Since the 1920s, the village has been bypassed by the A20.

beautiful collection of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses includes the hotel and public house the George and Dragon, shown on the right, a fine example of Tudor architecture in an historic village

The village sign is in the left foreground of the picture. Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route from Uckfield to Eastbourne.

Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and

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 moat

It is said that the first rumblings of the Luddite Movement were felt in Anstey with the breaking of the knitting frames; the village had expanded rapidly to accommodate an influx of workers.

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

The famous 16th-century map maker, John Speed, was born in this village.

Although since 1968 this place has been Hoo St Werburgh, to distinguish it from other Hoo Peninsula villages, it is still generally known simply as Hoo.

The parish itself included the outlying villages of Bickerstaffe, Burscough, Lathom, Scarisbrick and Skelmersdale; the population of Ormskirk itself grew from 2,554 in 1801 to 3,838 in 1821.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods. It was probably built in the 13th century, when the town of Swavesey was first established.

Wherwell is one of Hampshire's prettiest villages. By the time this photograph was taken, the local railway had been in use for 16 years.

This is true Warsash - the genuine old village. Not much of the old crab and lobster community survives, but what remains is quite quaint.

These splendid trees had already overseen the widespread development of substantial suburban houses south of the village and the station which had begun in the years following the First World War.

Beyond the gates, the Ewell Road extends onwards to the centre of Cheam village.

The number of privately owned motor vehicles in the picture demonstrates why the widening of the roadway became necessary during the rapid development of the village in the 1920s and 30s.

Now in private hands, up until the 1950s it and much other property in the village was owned by the Sheffields of Normanby Hall.