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The useful railway link with Wennington was lost in 1966, but the return of Caton's annual Gala, like the one at Poulton-le Fylde, was won by vociferous demand from villagers in about 1970.

Monton had been a separate village until the incorporation of Eccles, when it was taken under the new council's wing. Monton Green is also the name of the road in our photograph.

To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway

You can almost imagine him walking along this country road outside the village.

The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway into the village is now reduced to a footpath.

Much of the church that he built still survives, surrounded by this prosperous village and its yachting harbour. A century ago Bosham was still a working fishing port.

The picture shows the village sign and a modern road sign. All road signs were removed during World War Two to confuse invaders.

A new church was built in the centre of Upton village at a cost of £728, which in turn was replaced by the present St Mary's in 1868.

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire.The village has many historic houses.

The Diamond stone sits alongside the Devizes to Swindon main road that goes through the village.

Round the bend, past the old garage, the A271 continues as Gardner Street, the main shopping street of the village.

At the junction of Old Road and the main road, the A271, was this entrepreneurial former village smithy.

The older parts of Chipstead village are on the chalk ridge above the dry valley some 150 feet below, along which Chipstead Valley Road runs.

This view looks from the garden of the Old School House, built in about 1850, and once the village school, of course.

The King's Arms now serves as the post office and village store as well as a public house.

Eaves Hall, next to the village, is now a country club for the Civil Service Motoring Association.The cottages on the left were a Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.

This is how the village must have looked when the writer Eric Parker passed this way while researching his book 'Highways & Byways in Surrey', published in 1908.

Once the centre of the Anglo-Saxon village, the Green is overlooked by houses mostly dating from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Tolpuddle's churchyard is the last resting place of Joseph Hammett, the only Tolpuddle martyr to live to old age in his native village.

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul, a favourite dedication of King Ine in Anglo-Saxon times, stands on a knoll overlooking Uplyme village.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland. Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'Little Venice'.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

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

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