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Claverdon is a large village which saw considerable expansion in the 1970s and is mostly inhabited by commuters.

Since this picture was taken, the 'village' has undergone further housing developments which mean that it has become a suburb of Abergavenny.

The 100ft tower of St Peter and St Paul's Church dominates this estate village of grey lias cottages. The tower is in the Somerset style, and is decorated with fifty carved figures.

The village street curves around the foot of Bindon Hill as it approaches the cove, with the Cove Hotel next to the thatched cottages on the left.

The Red Lion is the building on the right. Like so many other local timber buildings, it now has a brick façade.

To the west of the village is a labyrinth of man-made caverns from which the stone for Exeter Cathedral was taken. The Quarry Caves are now an exciting tourist attraction.

This picturesque view shows how far out the tide would recede. The road leading up the cliff from the village looks a steep, arduous walk.

During the reign of King Stephen in the 12th century, the original owners of Bell Hill Farm, Staintondale, rang a bell or blew a horn every evening to act as a guide to travellers.

The writer and poet Laurie Lee was born in Stroud in 1914 and moved to Slad when he was three. The village and countryside around inspired his most famous book, 'Cider with Rosie'.

The village is dominated by the parish church with its 15th-century flint tower; it is surrounded by the ruins of the priory founded here in the time of King John by Sir Ralph Mainwaring.

There was a great fire in 1600 in Gamlingay, and most of the buildings along Church Street were burnt down. The Cock is one of the early replacements; in 1965 the beer was supplied by Greene King.

These 18th-century cottages were built to house farm workers and fishermen when the latter moved up from the shore.

The row of thatched cottages on the left have been modernised, and look totally different today.

Also known as the Blind House from its lack of windows, the Roundhouse was the village lock-up. Built in 1779, it sometimes held children playing truant from school.

A stroll across the water meadows of the River Itchen brings the traveller to the village of St Cross, seen here just after the end of the First World War.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

The A30 through Mitchell became a bottleneck known to thousands of summer holiday makers; but now that it has been by-passed, we may be thankful that the village has returned to this

Slad huddles round the road that runs from Stroud to Birdlip. When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture.

Lose Hill, at 1,563ft, is the eastern extremity of a fine ridge which runs from Mam Tor.

Taxal Lodge was a boarding school on the outskirts of the village. Note the single-storey extension and the fire escape ladder from the upper bedroom in the gable of the main building.

Otterton's village green was the setting for medieval village fairs, and it is still a venue for local events.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Beyond Blisworth and virtually within earshot of the M1 (which opened in the late 1950s) Milton Malsor survives proximity to Northampton remarkably well.

The post office at Ayot was used by George Bernard Shaw in a rather lesser known play, 'A Village Wooing'.