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Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

The parish pump, where the village must have originated in c 1293, is just out of shot to the left of the photograph. The small shop to the extreme right has been converted to residential use.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Trefriw, like so many Welsh villages, boasts a long history which is not always evident from the predominantly 19th- century buildings.

Dewponds were depressions in the chalk ground, lined with puddled clay; they were used to collect rainfall for watering farm livestock.The village is now cut in two by a very busy dual carriageway

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage.

The village church of St Mary's is an Early English building with an ancient chest and coffin.

Bunbury is a name familiar to those of us who enjoy Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest', but few people realise that such a village actually exists.

The former school, now the village hall, is dated 1846. Jean Lovelock (née Dennis), who lived behind the playground, was at the school in the late 1930s.

Described as 'Robin Hood's village', Edwinstowe lies south of the Sherwood Forest Country Park.

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.

Before this date, and even in medieval times, the village had at least two ale houses. The inn has beautiful gardens, and a putting green.

South of Lincoln a string of villages grew up along the western edge of the limestone ridge, mostly along the spring line.

West Horndon is a planned village dating only from the 1940s. Before that, it had been a sparsely-inhabited parish, whose medieval church had collapsed by the early 18th century.

This scene in Wallasey Village, near the junction with St John's Road, shows an old thatched cottage typical of the time.

With its pollarded lime trees and some charming half-timbered cottages spread along its length, the village High Street suffered for several decades from the heavy traffic which thundered along this stretch

Edward Wright, the village baker, gave his name to this row of cottages in the High Street. His house and the bakery, second from left, are thought to be more than 300 years old.

Overlooking the river is a village green which dwindles into a pleasant riverside walk along the Hodder. Uphill from the bridge are stone cottages.

Overton is situated near the Lune Estuary; it is said that a terrace on the main village street uses stone that came from Cockersand Abbey. Of the abbey, only the chapterhouse remains.

Silverdale is a beautiful limestone village in the midst of woods and craggy outcrops.

The coming of the railway in 1856 prompted a rapid expansion of this village: in 1851 it had a population of only 437, which within twenty years had grown to 3,577.

Even the village's old name of Trevena was changed to Tintagel.

The picturesque village has been used for the filming of the BBC series 'Born and Bred'. East Barsham's manor house was built by Sir William Fermor during the reign of Henry VII.