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This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.

The coming of the railway and Goring's close proximity to the river helped put the village on the map around the turn of the century.

Local opinion is that the village is every bit as striking as the more famous Clovelly in nearby North Devon.

Passing through the village in 1955 one may well have stopped at Parsler's Motor-Cycle & General Store in Clinkards Hill (left), to purchase provisions or to fill up with Cleveland fuel.

This attractive building is reputed to be one of the finest village halls in the county. Cotswold stone tiles cover a splendid hammer beam roof made with very large oak timbers.

A group of customers wait to saddle-up for an excursion from the White House Riding School at Huntington, a small village just to the north of York.

Despite modern development, Westbourne, to the west of Bournemouth, retains its village atmosphere. Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell stayed in the village during the Civil War. This tumble-down cottage had probably changed little since those stirring times.

Almost all the land in the village is part of the 20,000 acre Sandringham estate owned by the Queen.

Two of the village's attractions are the parish church, which is the only one in the country dedicated to St Benedict Biscop, and the cricket ground, which is one of the few walled-in grounds to survive

Modern buildings have crowded in along the northern part of Betchworth's long village street, but the line of the North Downs and the big chalk pit remain much the same, although the downs are far more

A delivery van waits outside a sturdy row of 18th-century cottages in the Swaledale village of Keld.

But few locals today call these villages anything but Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton.

This isolated village between Clacton-on-Sea and Brightlingsea is famous for its old priory.

A rustic scene in the centre of the village, southwards along Duck Street, with the Swiss Cottage contributing its flamboyantly flowing thatch (left).

This unprepossessing village, now the home of a major holiday theme park, straddles the main trunk road that bisects the county. It suffers the full impact of constant traffic.

Camborne grew rapidly from a modest village in the late 1700s into Cornwall's tin mining capital. Its plain buildings of dull brown stone reflect its workaday origins.

This post mill was moved to here from Aldringham in 1922, and was altered to drive a waterpump to provide water supplies for a holiday village. The house in the clouds conceals a water storage tank.

Blandford has declined as an agricultural centre, but is a popular shopping venue for the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

Local tradition says that a Spanish galleon was wrecked in the cove here during the 17th century, soon after the village had been depopulated by a plague.

It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.