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Sheep safely graze on the village green in Danby, a pretty village on the northern edge of the North York Moors. Note the chapel on the left.

In the days when supermarkets were uncommon, Canterton Stores would have provided villagers with almost everything they required. In the middle of Preston Candover is the Victorian church, St Mary's.

Well off the beaten track and close to the West Sussex border, this village is now more commonly known as Oakwoodhill. It has a delightful old church standing on its own in woodland.

The coalman pauses between his deliveries. Village life carried on much as it always had done, even though not many miles away the industrial revolution was in full swing.

Chirbury was the home of Lord Herbert, an Elizabethan philosopher, diplomat and keen historian.

Chirbury was the home of Lord Herbert, an Elizabethan philosopher, diplomat and keen historian.

Beyond the village rises Wetherlam, the most northerly of the Coniston Fells, and over to the left, hidden by cloud, Lancashire's highest peak, the Old Man.

The unmade road leads from the village to the beach. The sand-dunes are covered with marram grass, which helps knit them together and prevent erosion on this windy coast.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Cragg Vale, seen here from above the village, was a remote hamlet above the Calder Valley in the 18th century, when it was the base of a notorious gang of counterfeiters known as the 'Cragg Vale Coiners

This view of the village's main road was taken looking east. It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.

The village shop and post office are featured prominently in this picture.

In their summer dresses, the ladies of Cheam go about their task of shopping along Cheam Broadway at lunchtime on a warm day.

The 200ft 14th-century steeple of St Mary's Church is a prominent landmark. There is a stone carving of the Last Judgement above the west door.

This is the countryside at its best! Barford St John is a typical example of the remoteness of some of the villages in north-west Oxfordshire.

Buckden is beautifully situated under Buckden Pike, which soars to 2,302 feet above the village and provides a fine viewpoint across Wharfedale.

This posed picture shows the lower part of the village.The 15th-century tower of the village church is peeping out on the skyline on the left.

The village straddles the main A41 Chester Road with the main shopping area spread out in a linear fashion on either side of the road, as we can see here.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy Devon beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the left of the Square, next to the mid-19th-century Market Hall.

The view looks along the lane towards a 19th-century school and to the left, down Vicarage Fold, stands the village pub.

This sprawling modern village grew up with the coming of the railway at the junction of the A267 and B2203.

In the days before almost everyone owned a car, quiet villages situated miles from the nearest town needed village shops able to supply all the essentials.

The village is set solidly in the heart of market gardening country, and Stotfold's name is a carry forward of the Old English title for a pigpen.