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This sizeable village, close by Liskeard, sprawls along a hill-top surrounded by high moorland. All around are the ruins of engine houses and copper mines.

Moving west from Godalming, the route passes through Elstead, a village with a medieval bridge over the River Wey and this triangular village green.

Paglesham is a village of two parts, Church End and East End.

The 1950s and 1960s were ideal decades for taking to the quiet country roads and villages to enjoy the exhilaration of motor-car driving.

The village began to expand in 1866-1867 when a local man came up with a scheme to transform it into a popular seaside resort.

Inland from Bridlington is the village of Carnaby, with its 13th-century church of St John the Baptist. The village grew around the estate of Boynton Hall.

Built around the massive Sprotborough Hall, village life centred on the landowners, the Copley family.

Churchtown villagers used the bridge, which was situated near Catterall Hall. The last flood damage occurred in October 1980, when St Michael's village also suffered.

This quiet north Hertfordshire village offers teas in the garden - or something a little stronger at the Three Horseshoes (left). The pub had been the village school in 1873.

The Cross and the Carew Arms 1929 Further south, Crowcombe is the largest village on the western flanks of the Quantocks, and once was a small market town.

The Six Bells on the right is the last remaining public house in the village. It was built in the 16th century, and over the years is has been renovated, rebuilt and extended.

This estate village, now owned by the Downshire family, was established around a wide green in the 17th century on land previously part of the Jervaulx and Coverham monasteries, abandoned in 1539.

Beside the delightful village pond stands the Day and Secondary School (right), a gift in 1876 of John Todd, owner of Swanland Hall.

The White Lion, one of many public houses in the village, was called the Rose and Crown in 1766, when it formed part of a marriage settlement between Mary Field and John Smith of Hitchin.

these help it to blend perfectly into the setting of the village. Christ Church was consecrated in 1904.

The villagers of Coltishall were favoured by Henry III: the local lords of the manor could not order the locals to do anything, or dispose of them, settle their quarrels or disputes or force them into

This lovely village extends from Highwood Hill to the north to Mill Hill East underground station in the south.

The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.

Nestling in the shelter of Lythe Bank, the ancient village holds the homes of many of the men who worked in the alum industry and on local estates.

Acorns were the main source of food for pigs in Norman England, and pigs were an important source of food for many Lancashire villages.

This cottage stands in an idyllic setting by the River Anton just ouside the village. Tasker's bridge bears the date 1843.

This photograph shows the old village centre of Wallasey.

The shelter with a handsome weather vane stands on the small village green.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on