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The earliest residence in Rockingham dates from 1670; much of the village was modernised and improved in the 19th century, and then again in the 1950s.

The 18th-century working water-mill lies on the River Thame, about a mile from the centre of the village of Cuddesdon.

Chigwell, situated on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

Skewen sits at the heart of a region of foundries and oil refin- ing. The village expanded when a major refinery was built close by at Llandarcy.

The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.

When this photograph was taken, Blakeney was still a small trading port; it could accommodate vessels of 150 tons burden to unload and load coal, oil-cake and manure at the quay.

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's

Leintwardine straddles an ancient Roman settlement, Bravinium, along Watling Street, (not to be confused with the better known Watling Street that leads from London to Wroxeter).

Are the village women, right, considering a visit to the Anchor pub for a glass of cider?

The Old Hall, or Manor House, at Whitwell bears the mullioned and transomed windows and steep gables typical of its Tudor ancestry.

A few miles west from Grimsby, the village of Laceby once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as possessing the two closest pubs – The Waterloo and The Nags Head.

The Wye joins the Derwent at Rowsley, and this photograph shows the smaller bridge over the River Wye to the south of the village.

Fontmell Magna was long known to early guidebook writers as 'the village with the maypole', for this symbol of fertility and the seasons survived here for generations.

This building contained the village post office and the public house. The unusual name comes from the ship of Captain Philip Broke of Nacton, whose estate extended into Bucklesham.

There was also a large flour mill here; but now the village relies on recreation from the 1,200 acre Chew Valley Lake lying to its west. The lake was built in the 1950s to supply water for Bristol.

Originally clustered around the church to the south, the hamlet was destroyed by a fire in the 17th century and the Manor Inn, built in 1871, is the focus of the 'new' village.

In the centre of this spacious village is the War Memorial, standing on the edge of the village green. It was officially 'unveiled' in 1920.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Archetypal 1930s development swishes around the foot of Harrow on the Hill, with its gasworks tower always visible from the village and on the approach to Northolt Aerodrome.

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.

This view looks towards the village from the Sheffield road. On the right is the Ordnance Arms, better known to today's tourists as the ivy-covered Hathersage Inn.

The pump at Ashford, on the left, is the site of one of the village's six well-dressings, held annually in early June.

Carlton Hall and the Tudor House both still dominate the village. The small building, centre, has been tidied up and is no longer adored with ivy.