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Until recently, Husthwaite, on the western edge of the Hambleton Hills near Easingwold, was known as the Orchard Village because of its abundance of apple, pear and plum orchards.

Another view of Reeth, looking down across the gritstone-slabbed roofs of the cottages of the village, which was another important lead mining centre during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The restored cross in the centre of Woodhouse, a South Yorkshire village east of Sheffield, stands on an ancient stepped base and now features a sundial and a weathervane.

The plateau-top village of Youlgreave stands between the valleys of the Bradford and the Lathkill; it is a prosperous settlement based on lead mining and farming.

C ottages with steep, tumbling thatched roofs abound in this view of the village street. At this time Trumpington was a village separate from the city of Cambridge.

Set at the heart of an ancient tin mining district this pleasing old village straddles the Tamar. The goods sidings at the station recall Cornwall's past prosperity based on the mining of tin.

Broadway is a tempting village for tourists, full of antique and craft shops.

The fishing village of Runswick Bay is set on a sheer cliff. It is also one of the most attractive harbourless villages along the Yorkshire coast.

Until the 1950s, Puddletown was officially 'Piddletown', but - unlike the villages further up the river valley - the authorities changed this to the more acceptable Puddletown.

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraordinary design of the church.

The village is situated on a loop of the Thames between Oxford and Abingdon. Today, Sandford is a rapidly-expanding riverside village, but in the 1950s, it was a quiet rural community.

The village is situated on a loop of the Thames between Oxford and Abingdon. Today, Sandford is a rapidly-expanding riverside village, but in the 1950s, it was a quiet rural community.

The ford and footbridge are in the centre of the estate village of Settrington, three miles east of Malton.

On the way from Clapham to Horton-in-Ribblesdale we pass through the village of Austwick. The village's church of the Epiphany was built as a lecture hall in 1839.

The village nonconformist chapel is prominent on the right of this photograph of Frizington, a large former coal mining village just inland from Whitehaven.

Even though Boxmoor village has survived, it was destined to be surrounded by the New Town.

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green. A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.

Generations of residents have worked to remove traffic from the narrow, winding village streets and the main road to Chester ran through the village until the by- pass was built in the 1930s.

Flint and brick feature predominantly in traditional Norfolk buildings, particularly so in the pretty village of Blakeney, seen here looking down towards the marshes.

Cley (rhymes with sky), once a busy port, is now a sleepy village, where nothing much has changed since this photograph was taken.

We are looking down on the village centre from The Gate, facing the Rydal Fells.

Nearby is the Cwm Spring supplying mineral water which is bottled in the village. Until recently, local householders even used the water for bathing.

A solitary car is parked outside the New Inn on the left in Aislaby, a small village near Whitby, just off the road that leads to Middlesbrough.

Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old