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The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church, where the Yewdale Beck enters the western side of Coniston Water.

It was a popular place for holidays, even though the village had been spoiled by the ruins of an alum works and an iron bridge that carried the railway line between Whitby and Saltburn.

The miller looks out over the pool of this old Surrey watermill at Barford, an isolated part of Churt village.

The 17th century cross and village stocks. Local man Henry Daniels introduced fustian cutting to Lymm, having first gone to Manchester to learn the business.

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

Opposite the Cock Inn (left) stands the tiny village Post Office, with a pensioner eyeing the photographer suspiciously.

The area around the chancel arch includes some stonework from the village's Saxon church. In 1898 the rector of Romaldkirk also held the title of Lord of the Manor.

Only a few miles away from the industry of Castleford, Ledsham village has remained an oasis of tranquillity.

A century has brought no great change to this view of the village, although it does look rather threadbare in this photograph by comparison with today's manicured look.

Behind The Old New Inn, a Mr Morris - helped by a few friends - built the famous model village in the 1930s.

The most striking feature of Kilnsey village in Upper Wharfedale is the great hooded cowl of Kilnsey Crag, rising beyond the whitewashed Tennant Arms Hotel.

The pretty village of Calbourne lies among the downlands of the Isle of Wight. Its lovely Early English church boasts many fine monuments and is among the oldest on the island.

Even when this picture was taken, the hustle and bustle of St John's weekly market lingered on only in the memories of the village's more senior citizens; it had ceased in 1888.

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 and

As a market town, Fakenham serves the needs of a wide area of villages and farms - as is suggested by the presence of the main national banks.

The 1950s saw a rapid development of holiday chalets among the sand-dunes between Hemsby village and the sea.

The White Hart on the left is the only pub left in the village. When the bicycle shop, just past the memorial (left), closed in the 1960s Frank Croach, the butcher, moved in.

The imposing pump stands at a cross roads in the village.

St Peter's Church, seen here from the churchyard and looking towards the village green, was rebuilt in 1718 on the site of an earlier church.

If you think there is a rather large white gravestone in the church graveyard, you are wrong: it happens to be the village pump.

Ickenham has retained a pleasant village atmosphere, despite some unfortunate modern building.

Ramsgill is another village in Upper Nidderdale. The parish church was built in 1842, and is furnished inside with altar rails by Robert Thompson, the famous 'mouse man' of Kilburn (see K68008, p53).

This watery way running through the village is where the stream was diverted to run along the road specifically to wash the wheels of carts and wagons and the feet of the horses.

BY THE START OF the new millennium, Twickenham had evolved a long way from the idyllic Arcadian village of the 18th century with its elegant riverside mansions and villas set in sylvan grounds.