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For centuries Gnosall was a small agricultural village, but in the 19th century many of the villagers also made shoes for the Stafford shoe manufacturers.

Originally it linked Great Haywood to the old village of Shugborough; the village was later removed by the Ansons as it spoiled their view.

This is the view from the tower of the church; we are looking over the village green towards the south-west, with the old elm still in the centre.

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Equidistant between Pickering and Castleton is the historic village of Rosedale. The small Cistercian abbey housing 10 nuns was formed in 1158. A tower is the only remaining part of the abbey itself.

The resort developed in a rather piece-meal way from a fishing village with fields amid the houses.

East Blatchington village has changed radically since this view was taken. St Peter's Church is still there.

The village is well-known for the National Trust-owned Clergy House, which was in fact the very first building the Trust acquired: it bought the house in 1896 for the princely sum of £10.

This picturesque village sits in a beautiful valley between the Rivers Camel and Allen.

This is one of Kent's most haunted villages. Ghost hunter Andrew Green recently looked into these tales for a new book, and found only one haunting still allegedly occurring.

Boot and shoe manufacturing led to the expansion of the village in the late 19th century, as it did in many Northamptonshire villages in this area.

Robin Hood's Bay is now half the size of the original village - the centre section slid into the sea, taking with it the new road.

Chedworth is a sprawling village with Cotswold stone cottages that cling to the valley sides.

The parish church of St Mark is in the main part of the village, near the Methodist Chapel, the primary school and the village shop.

The parade of shops (left) proclaims that a once quiet seaside village is becoming a busy township - we can see Ellwood's, the Midland Bank, a chemist, and a newsagent and tobacconist.

Back at Chesham Bois Common, the common acts partly as a buffer between the village and Amersham, although it merges to the east and west.

The village lies three miles inland along what passes for a ridge in this flat country between the Wolds and the sand dunes.

This spacious village was built around the estate of the Coates family, who lived at Helperby Hall.

Your caption writer chatted here to a villager who told him about an old mutual friend, Dorchestor Rural District Councillor Margaret Kraft, and provided the information that Charminster was one

This vital hub of the village was run for years by the Star family.

Corfe Mullen is one of the largest parishes in Dorset, but until the middle of the 20th century it was a modest village.

From the Hanneys the route heads along the A338 road towards Oxford, turning right onto the A415 at Frilford; heading back towards Abingdon, our last stop is in Marcham village.

Ferring is a residential village near the sea.The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion.

Further north-east we reach Crowborough, a village that became a health resort in the 1870s when Lord Abergavenny followed the advice of a Dr Prince.