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A lone farm wagon trundles between the houses in a village built of local slate. Only some chimneys and window surrounds are finished in brick.

On the right, beside the village pond, a horse-drawn wagon and a group of people wait in the shade.

Langley Park is a pit village just off the road between Lanchester and Durham. The road to the left goes to Quebec and Cornsay Colliery.

A scene of a typical village pub: quiet, unassuming and somewhat down-at-heel, but an essential part of the fabric of English rural life.

This road leads out of the village towards Carperby. Here we see North's House (centre), and Polly Miller's (left) - both named after fondly remembered former

He spent his retirement running the village inn with his French wife Clothilde. Both now rest in the churchyard.

He spent his retirement running the village inn with his French wife Clothilde. Both now rest in the churchyard.

Not far away from the village are local quarries where a kind of gravel called Burley Rock was excavated in earlier times.

Ticehurst's attractive village square is all but deserted.

The only traffic is a horse-drawn conveyance in this view of the cross-roads village on a ridge of the High Weald above the River Rother. Today, Stonegate is close to the Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

This Edwardian photograph somehow captures the feel of an English village; note the sign beneath the tree, which points towards Brighton and Shoreham.

The sightseers on the coach arriving at the hotel reveal that the village was a 'must see' for visitors.

St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames.

Inns and restaurants such as the Old Plough and the White Horse (left) served the travelling public on the Great North Road until a bypass was built for the A1 to the west of the village.

Smarden is one of Kent's most beautiful villages; its name derives from the Saxon 'smeredaenne', meaning 'butter valley and pasture'.

In a small village, the post office and general store was always important. This one states boldly that telegrams could be dispatched. A letterbox is set in the wall.

The Free Trade Inn has served many generations in this industrial village.

This photograph shows a quiet corner of the village just beneath the parish church, where the unusual war memorial in the centre stands on an old granite church pillar.

Dolphinholme was the first village to be lit by gas, and its first gas lamp is preserved at Derham House. At its peak the mill employed 1400 people, who worked shifts, day and night.

In 1794 a very large barracks was built just north of the village; it was used to house militia during the Napoleonic Wars. After the First World War, the barracks were closed and demolished.

The picturesque village of Burwash was once a centre of the Wealden iron industry. Nearby stands Batemans, a 17th-century iron-master's house, the home of Rudyard Kipling for many years.

Henry Heber, rector in the village of Hodnet for a time, wrote the hymn 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty'.

Methodism was a great uniting force among the communities of lead miners in places like Swaledale, and almost every village had its chapel.

It is still the village post office.