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On the edge of Bodmin Moor, near Liskeard, are several important archaeological sites with Celtic remains. This is St Cleer's Holy Well in the village named after him.

The entire complex comprises an outer circular bank with an inner ditch. Inside was a great stone circle enclosing two smaller circles.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

St Oswald's parish church at Askrigg is the mother church of Wensleydale, and it is easily the largest church in the dale.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

By the time this photograph was taken, Crowthorne was firmly established as a community, though the centre of the village really only dates back to the 1860s.

The large building is the Whitsand Bay Hotel; it used to stand at Torpoint on the banks of the Tamar, but was dismantled and re-erected here.

Here we have a grand view of the railway arches heading out of Whalley.

The village is listed in the Domesday Book as Bodeton. The great age of the market cross, with its uneven steps and remains of the punishment stocks, is apparent.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

Situated between the Hall and the village, Kelham Bridge's one claim to fame is that it was rammed and split in two by a small iceberg that floated down the Trent during the winter of 1854–55.

The village is situated at one end of the beautifully named Golden Valley.

Great Hucklow is a former lead mining village high on the White Peak plateau of the Peak District.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

This was the main road through the village, before the advent of by-passes; we are looking back in the direction of Blackwater. This was the A327.

A meet of hounds at Halse, a charming old village to the north west of Taunton. In medieval times there was a branch of the Knights Hospitallers at Halse.

This is the village of Sandbank on the western side of Holy Loch. On the far side are the houses of Kilmun and the heights of Stronchullin Hill, Beinn Ruadh and Creachan Mor.

The beach at Spiddal has always been popular with Galway folk and other tourists. In this scene, the beach is quiet, with bathers enjoying a summer swim. The village is in the distance.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but now relied on agriculture and quarrying. In 1902 the railway finally came to Grassington with the opening of a line to Skipton.

A quiet corner of the tiny village of Cark, where the River Eea flows under a low bridge into the sands of Morecambe Bay. Note the upturned cart by the bridge.

A closer view of the church showing, in the foreground, the war memorial commemorating those men of the village who fell in the First and Second World Wars.

The higher part of Kilburn village, including the parish church of St Mary (which we can see in the background, centre) clusters around its large village green.

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

A swan cruises on the river as it curves into the east side of the village, running by a municipalised garden of finely-mown grass, and a statutory wooden seat carefully placed under the only tree of consequence