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The village boasts many grand buildings. Box Hill School has become one of the dominant features of the village; it was erected by Edward Gardener in 1870, and was then named Dalewood.

The assembled staff pose outside a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients from London set up just outside the village of Ockley.

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

This large village with houses showing mixed building styles centres on the crossroads near St James's Church. Note the air raid siren above the door of the Old Black Swan.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

In 1960 Ryhope was still very much a pit village, with its own colliery. In 1967 Ryhope, along with Silksworth, East Herrington, South Hylton, and Castletown, was incorporated into Sunderland.

Pictured from the junction with the main road, the lane leads down past the cottages towards the village school.

The nearby quarries - and much of Binstead's villagers must have worked in them when they were active - provided the stone for the cathedrals at Chichester and Winchester.

Here is a lovely half- timbered building in this picturesque little village on the Canterbury road. A little girl stands proudly in front, whilst next door baskets are for sale.

This pretty old Kentish village of Saxon vintage has a lovely green (alas, not now as rural as it looks here) surrounded by lime and chestnut trees, some grand Georgian houses and simpler homes.

The grey slate walls of the buildings and cobbled streets are typical of many Lakeland villages. On the wall alongside the door are display boards advertising Frith & Co local photographs.

The village became a favourite with artists and holidaymakers alike; many of its red-roofed cottages were perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs. It is also known as Bay Town.

This, the main part of the village, is built far enough inland to be safe from the ravages of the sea.

Little Ann Village C1955 Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton.

These two photographs of the village High Street give some indication of the constantly-flowing stream of traffic which passes the small, half-timbered Black Horse pub with its adjacent wine merchant

This part of Yelverton, separated from the rest of the village by the main road, goes by the curious name of Leg O'Mutton.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses line the grassy banks.

A small village just south of Devizes, Potterne still has some famous and wonderfully ancient buildings. It was once a manor of the Bishops of Salisbury.

Children from Yew Tree Farm pose outside their gate for the photographer - a major event in this quiet village, well off the main Leyburn road.

The family were great benefactors to the village, hence the name of these almshouses. Notice the man working in his vegetable plot on the right of the picture.

Bulphan was always a smallish village. According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

It is wrongly thought by some people that the settlement derived its name from a large granite boulder in the village known as the Barn Stone.

The line was opened in 1887 and had an enormous impact on the village, creating a dramatic increase in house and shop building to accommodate the large numbers of visitors.

William Crowe, rector of Stoke, wrote a paean of praise to Lewesdon Hill, which drew the admiration of William Wordsworth: '...of hills, and woods and fruitful vales, and villages, half-hid in tufted