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Here we see picturesque timber-framed cottages in the centre of Fittleworth, to the south-east of Petworth.

This is the heart of the village, with the George Inn (left) and the Lion Hotel, both former coaching inns, standing opposite each other.

We continue on to the village pond, which now has a fringe of sedge and reeds and is home to many coot, duck and moorhen. The old thatched house on the left was replaced in 1959 by a modern house.

This driveway leads past the church to Wethersfield Hall. The village doctor once had his surgery at the Hall, though his patients disliked passing the graveyard whenever they visited him.

Leaving the villages along the river, we move inland south to Earley, now very much part of Reading. In 1910 Church Road was a country lane still.

Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.

Along the Evenlode, that gentle Cotswold stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but

The mechanisation of the traditional cloth industry created the Chalford we see today.

This village seems archetypal: it has a village green, a local store and a red telephone box; surrounded by fields and oasthouses it retains a deep rural tranquillity.

Fine sea views can be obtained from the regular summer open-top bus service which runs from Brighton to Rottingdean, a picturesque village situated in a dene, or valley in the downs.

The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden, which stands alongside the River Wharfe.

The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe. The harbour was once connected with local mines by a railway - the tracks can be seen on the left of the photograph.

Yelvertoft stands near the Grand Union Canal, on a stream which flows into the Avon. The village side streets are reminders of local farmers who long ago made their living off the land here.

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

The Domesday Book records that the manor of Fordingbridge possessed a church and two mills, and was rented at 14s 2d.

A place of literary pilgrimage, attracting Thomas Hardy fans from all over the world, Puddletown is the 'Weatherbury' of Hardy's novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd'.

As with picture No B561032 (below), this is looking east along the village.

The Town Hall, rebuilt during the 19th century, occupies a solitary position in the centre of a deserted market place.

The Red Lion Hotel, on the right of the picture, gives its name to the square in the centre of the village, now dominated by traffic in a one-way system.The two cyclists meandering down the middle

Here we have a view of the church steeple from the opposite end of the village. The church has a Tudor pulpit. The house on the right was once an inn called the Perserverance.

In late morning sunshine, the boys of the village head for the newsagents, possibly to collect their wages for the daily delivery run.

The village itself is a mix of stone and local brick, as in the terrace on the right.

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.