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Here we see a Maytime scene of the long, tongue-shaped village green, with the church of St George in the background, and the chestnut trees in full blossom.

half-hipped timbered frame, visible at the gable end, and attic windows plus roadside flowers, early 16th- century Anthorn Cottage continues to give character to Blandford Road in the linear village

Many of the little villages like Overstrand invested well by turning the old shed shops and tin cafes into modern premises.

This area was known as Stoneham Village.

A new village was born around the railway station and with it a new church, St Mary's, built in 1892 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Looking up Trafford Road, one can see the large villas on the Edge, above the village that serviced their needs.

Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).

Both villages, which lie at the end of the Selsey peninsula, just a few miles from the historic cathedral city of Chichester, have long been associated with seaside holiday recreation.

The village of Coolham is probably best known for a lovely old house known as the 'Blue Idol'. The house dates from the time of the Armada in 1588, and was originally a Friends' Meeting House.

When the village school was built in the 19th century all was quiet, but by 1955 it was getting busier - there are Belisha beacons across School Lane.

In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village. Suppressed during the Dissolution, the monastic church, which was also the parish church, survived.

The previous church had been timber-framed and the village still has a number of timber-framed buildings; there is a particularly pretty one just across the street from the church.

In this view, the ancient St Andrew's church and the church school of 1887 stand together above the pond, fed by a spring seen in the foreground.The springwater was used by the villagers and sold

This scene in the centre of the pretty village of Hutton-le-Hole on the edge of the North York Moors is unchanged in the last 50 years.

Romanby Green at Northallerton, a little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors, gives the impression of a village green.

Along with a post office there were a grocery, a butcher's, a cobbler's, a tailor's and a baker's in the village at this time.

There has been much debate about the age and significance of these four giant stones a mile north of the village.

Led by the fiddle-player on the right, and probably lubricated by the pub behind him, Morris dancers perform on the village green in the year that ended post-war rationing.

The village of Lower Penn was once owned by Lady Godiva, and was formerly known as Nether Penn.

Until the railway arrived, only 35 years before this photograph was taken, Grange-over-Sands was little more than a fishing village, looking out across the Kent estuary to the rest of Lancashire.

Although few village buildings pre-date the 17th century, Croston is an ancient place.

Now a suburb of Wellington, the village was once known as Rowe Green, but often dubbed 'Rogue Green' because of the unruly behaviour of some of its inhabitants.

The story of the heroic, self-imposed quarantine which the villagers imposed to stop the infection spreading is well known.

This late Victorian scene is typical of many of the towns and villages in England at the time.