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The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

Cartmel Priory was built around 188; it is situated in the Cartmel Peninsula, the nearest neighbour to Furness.

Barkway spanned the main route from London to Cambridge, and it was only the coming of the railways in the 1850s that transformed it into a countryside backwater.

Our photographer was a busy man, and obviously spent a week or more travelling the area to capture the village scenes that we see here in our book, some eighty years on.

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

The Village c1965 This photograph was taken after the formation of Washington New Town.

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

The monks referred to in the village's name are the monks of Canterbury, who were lords of the manor and patrons of the living.

This village is at the very heart of so called 'witch country'.

This village is set high up close to the Sussex border. The village pub, the Hare and Hounds, has barely changed since this photograph was taken 35 years ago.

69Southern England HAMPSHIRE CHAWTON, The Village

The newly-cut village green at South Kirkby, near Hemsworth, gives a neat, urban appearance to this former West Yorkshire mining village.

Now on the A25, this village lies between the north downs and the Leith Hill sandstone range.

Quorn ('Querendon' in 1209) means 'the hill from where millstones were obtained'.

In the absence of a pavement, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

The last view in this chapter and in the book looks from the large village green across the pond to housing typical of the development of Pirbright.

The Verneys of Claydon House in Middle Claydon, now a National Trust house, bought Steeple Claydon in 1705 from the Chaloner family, who are commemorated in the village road, Chaloners Hill.

A Roman milestone was excavated at Thurmaston, but the name is Anglo- Scandinavian.

This is a very busy part of the village, which is not surprising - it was possible to purchase so many essential and varied items here.

The honour of being entitled Hertfordshire's tidiest village for 1960 went to the village of Hunsdon near Ware.

In the absence of a pave- ment, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

All three villages greens here were bought from the Duchy of Lancaster in 1926 for £5. St Leonard's Church was built in 1878 on the site of earlier ones dating back to 1220.

Kimpton was one of the Hertfordshire villages that kept up the tradition of celebrating May Day.