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Adjoining the village today, a huge distribution centre is developing on the former air crew training base.

This hilltop village, at the head of the Coombe Valley, sits astride the main road between Bude and Barnstaple. It was once the Pilgrim's route to St Michael's Mount.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

Situated between the Hall and the village, Kelham Bridge's one claim to fame is that it was rammed and split in two by a small iceberg that floated down the Trent during the winter of 1854–55.

This fine brick-built village is one of north Dorset's loveliest, its cottage gardens a delight all year round. Even with modern day traffic it seems a place lost in time.

Here we see Hever prior to Lord Astor's creation of a Tudor-style village adjacent to the castle. A horse-drawn wagon comes down the lane, and to the left is the spire of St Peter's Church.

The village is situated at one end of the beautifully named Golden Valley.

This development is known as Galleywood Village Shops. The shops have changed little with the passing years, and at least two still have these distinctively styled awnings.

Hoyland, properly Hoyland Nether, is a large former coal mining village between Sheffield and Barnsley.

The village itself lies a mile north-east of the cove.

This peaceful scene is in sharp contrast to the busy Thames valley village of today close to the M25.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.

Apart from a lean-to added to the front, the building is remarkably unchanged; a lane leads into the superb village with its great Elizabethan mansion.

The village takes its name from the staith that has been repaired and reinforced to remain its main defence against the unpredictable North Sea for centuries.

Ironically the new A43 Northampton road now by-passes the village. The tree has also gone.

Their work has been recognised in local villages on stylistic grounds.

The church tower continues to dominate this scene, but the village has grown a lot in the last century, with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.

This is St Cleer's Holy Well in the village named after him. The well is protected by the picturesque 15th-century baptistry erected over it.

The excavated undressed stones can be seen with the tower of the village church just behind the trees.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Like similar parishes nearby, the wealth of this fen village came from wool.

This view shows a deserted village, with the branch of the Derby Co-operative Society (centre) waiting for its first customer of the day.

This is a pretty, quiet village close to the Roman River. The Whalebone remains virtually unchanged from the time when this photograph was taken. Nearby is St Michael's church and the school.