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The now busy A6, along with the rapid growth of the nearby East Midlands Airport, compounds the traffic problems that Kegworth has seen since the M1 junction was put in a mile away.

Built in stone from the original Marton Hall in 1850 to serve the village of Marton, this Victorian building operated as the local school until 1963, when a modern building replaced it nearby.

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

This is one of a cluster of collieries which opened in east Kent just before the First World War. Villagers also found work at nearby Snowdown and Tilmanstone.

When Selborne is seen from Selborne Hanger on a summer's day it looks absolutely spectacular, a typical Hampshire village.

The hamlets of Stopper Lane, Martin Top, Newby and Howgill comprise this small, scattered community recorded in Domesday Book.

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

Cross the humped bridge over the river from Coltishall, and the village becomes Horstead.

In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.

In the 1950s Acomb boasted a number of 18th-century buildings. Tynevale House was built in 1754, Town Head in 1796, and the Miners Arms in 1750.

The churchyard of St Peter`s parish church at Hope is filled with gravestones commemorating local families, such as the Eyres and the Woodruffes.

The village church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is Norman in origin and was partially rebuilt during the 13th century.Within a few decades the church was extended; the west tower with its octagonal spire

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel, which incorporates part of a 16th-century half-timbered house, and which is famous as a high-class restaurant, is on the left.

We are looking down the High Street from Castle Street, where Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving was born.

The King's Head still stands beside the road, which drops north from the village to the moors below. A cottage on the left was once home to the blacksmith; his forge stood beyond the pub.

Goodworth Clatford lies a couple of miles to the south of Andover. We can see horses trotting through the village (centre). The name 'Clatford' means 'ford where burdock grew.'

Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece;' its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated terraced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.

The stream here flows through the Vale of Mawgan from St Columb. A couple of miles inland is the Village of St Mawgan, from which the giant airbase takes its name.

Here we see the Norman tower of the village church of All Saints.

Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, was born in Uffington, and this 380-year-old school featured in the novel.

A pleasure boat crowded to the gunwales chugs serenely up the river at Fulford, just south of York on the Ouse.

The village was formerly called Skirdal, deriving from a Saxon word meaning a 'clear water dale'; it was only during the 18th century that the hamlet's present name appeared.