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The earliest residence in Rockingham dates from 1670; much of the village was modernised and improved in the 19th century, and then again in the 1950s.

In the days when the English village was a thriving community, Yelvertoft benefited from two bakers, a butcher, a blacksmith, three inns and a grocer, whose premises can be seen on the left of the main

Not far distant from the Slaughters are the little villages of Lower and Upper Swell, both situated in an entrancing rural landscape along the banks of the River Dikler.

The 18th-century working water-mill lies on the River Thame, about a mile from the centre of the village of Cuddesdon.

A fair number of old cottages still line the earliest village streets around the church, but elsewhere any surviving cottage tends to be islanded in a sea of modernity.

Henshall Hall once stood in what is now a suburb of Congleton, the former village of Mossley. The house has now completely gone, and the lands are occupied by a new and very pleasant housing estate.

Chigwell, situated on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

The village expanded when a major refinery was built close by at Llandarcy.

The spire of the parish church watches over this bustling village, which was founded in the 15th century; it once had thriving corn and bobbin mills on the River Rothay.

The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.

Littlebourne is one of the charming little villages in the heart of the orchard country which stretches between Canterbury and Wingham; its cottages present an unusual mixture of architectural styles

Little or no mention of the village was made in the tourist guides at the time.

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

The church in the centre of the village sits on Roman earthworks and Roman tiles and bricks have been discovered beneath the chancel.

Are the village women, right, considering a visit to the Anchor pub for a glass of cider?

The hall of the manor was once used as the hall for the village school. Note the fine oriel window on the first floor to the left.

A few miles west from Grimsby, the village of Laceby once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as possessing the two closest pubs – The Waterloo and The Nags Head.

An evocative picture of this attractive village some two miles north east of Wadhurst and now close to Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

The Wye joins the Derwent at Rowsley, and this photograph shows the smaller bridge over the River Wye to the south of the village.

When this picture was taken in the Victorian era, Cowley was a large village gradually being swallowed up by the suburbs of Oxford.

This village and its neighbour, Toller Fratrum, are usually referred to as Little and Big Toller. Toller Porcorum or Big Toller's church boasts a most unusual font, said to have been a Roman altar.

Fontmell Magna was long known to early guidebook writers as 'the village with the maypole', for this symbol of fertility and the seasons survived here for generations.