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The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.The village church of St James was remarkable for its time in that it was built all at once, and not over a couple

A family pose with their fine-looking pony by the village pond, or mere, at Hartington.

Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.

The 12th-century church of St Helen was the parish church for Garstang, two miles away. Until they acquired their own church, Garstang villagers had to walk to Churchtown.

The character of the village has changed greatly in recent years as commuters have discovered it.

Three miles from Wye, the Norman village church has remained largely unaltered since it was built, with the exception of its windows.

The character of the village has changed greatly in recent years as commuters have discovered it.

The village lies next to Bolton on Swale five miles east of Richmond; it has the largest walled green in the whole of the country.

Once a major ironworking centre, this village also boasts the first Fuggle hops to be grown.

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Loders Post Office, run by J A Wells, can be seen in a view eastwards from the middle of the village. Waynflete and Lothers (left) face No 41 and the Loders Arms (right of centre).

St Barnabas's Church stands behind the two gate pillars (right), and a memorial in a nearby wall lists the village's fallen from the First and Second World Wars.

The village of Iffley has been swallowed up by Oxford, though its true heart remains intact. Iffley Mill, first mentioned in 1106, was destroyed by fire in 1908.

At the time of this photograph, Eythorne was primarily a dormitory for the local coal mines. These have long since been closed, and the village is a rural backwater again.

At nearby Fishlake, the village church is noted for its late Norman doorway. At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

The elegant double-span bridge over the River Derwent at Froggatt dates from the 17th century; it is unusual in that it has a large, pointed central arch nearer to the village and a smaller one on the

The church of St Leonard is perched on a steep slope just below the walls of the castle, overlooking the village.

There are two Benthams, High and Lower, and this view looks down Mount Pleasant from the village cross in High Bentham.

From the village of Cawsand, at the entrance to Plymouth Sound, the seas stretch out to Penlee Point, where the famous hooter alerted fog-bound sailors to the perils of this treacherous coast.

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

The village grew with the industries that sprang up and prospered alongside the river and the navigation. These included Unwins print works, a tannery, the gravel pits, and three laundries.

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and

The Spring c1965. A spring flows beside the village street in Fulking, and on the side of the wellhouse is this text: 'He sendeth springs into the valley which run among the hills.

The most distinctive feature of the church is its curious 'candle-snuffer' two-tier steeple, but the village also remembers that in 1560, its vicar was Edmund Drake, father of Francis Drake.