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There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

The main street runs north lined with estate cottages of around 1900, which seem to have been built on the village green.

Nearby is the village hall, built in 1890; it has a plaque outside commemorating the centenary of the . The thatched cottage has a very long garden plot, typical of this village.

It is obviously a quiet time of day in this Cheshire village.

Since the 1960s this village has grown quite substantially, mainly to accommodate workers from Banbury, 3½ miles away.

Surrounded by rolling hills, this has to be one of the most beautiful villages in Oxfordshire.

The Village Hall with its bell tower (left) was the village school from 1874 to 1971.

A little to the north of the Thames and beyond Staines is the village of Stanwell.

Totton, Eling's larger neighbour, once claimed the title of the 'largest village in Hampshire' - though it has expanded so much in recent years that by no stretch of the imagination could it still be

Polperro is the archetypal Cornish fishing village - a higgledy-piggledy maze of narrow streets leading down to a perfect, tiny harbour.

Five miles east of Sleaford, Heckington is a village widely known for its superb 14th-century Decorated Gothic parish church with its 185 foot high spire, rich carvings and sinuous window tracery.

Many of the village houses are built of the local ironstone; this gives them a rusty red colour, the same as the houses in Denton.

Situated at what is now the southern end of this expanded village, the church with its elegant recessed spire dates for the greater part from the earlier 15th century.

This photograph shows the old village centre, looking from the Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels. Carnforth Co-operative Society looked after the villagers' grocery needs.

This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

In the opposite corner is the village school founded by the gift of £180 from a tailor, James Thistleton.

High up above Todmorden, half of which used to be in Lancashire, we find this small Pennine village with a surprising number of mills for its size.

The war memorial stands on the triangular village green in the area within the railings, (far left).

The village lost its medieval church to bombs in World War II and has expanded much since the War, partly due to Lincoln’s proximity and partly to the RAF.

Godshill is one of the most photographed villages in England, with a wealth of fine thatched cottages.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile-hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

But other nearby Cotswold villages suffered as traditional methods were abandoned, making them unable to compete with newer technology.

There are two villages called Ash in Kent. This one lies about three miles from Sandwich.

This village seems archetypal: it has a village green, a local store and a red telephone box; surrounded by fields and oasthouses it retains a deep rural tranquillity.