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Just a couple of miles from Haywards Heath railway station is the attractive and ancient village of Lindfield, named after the lime (or linden) trees which flank the village High Street.

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

View C180008 was taken in front of the village hall. It is dated 1935, and is a large timber-framed building of some quality, convincingly done.

In this picture, Baines`s (in the distance, left) was still flourishing.

This post office and hardware shop is near to the church of St Andrew, the church hall that was previously the village school, and the Castle of Comfort pub.

A short walk from The Harrow pub at Steep brings you to this delightful spot at the heart of hilly East Hampshire, sometimes described as 'Little Switzerland'.

The village of Sandbank is on the left, Kilmun is off camera to the right.

The Village 1909 A typical Edwardian scene, with smartly dressed children looking coyly at the camera. A mile to the west lies Fleet Pond, Hampshire's largest freshwater lake.

The view on leaving Hinderwell in the direction of Easington is flanked on the left by the village school and the playground.

Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.

Near to the village are the extensive grounds of Brockenhurst Park, the home of the Morant family until well into the last century.

The church and Clergy House lie closer to the river, while the village, completely unspoilt, runs north-south along higher ground.

There was once a Holy Thorn tree in Orcop that was said to have grown from a cutting from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. Unfortunately, it was blown down in a gale in 1980.

The cottages on the right were almshouses. They are gone now.

Looking North-West This part of the village is known as Lower Wanborough, and lies 3 miles east of Swindon.

The road to Brynmawr winds around the hillside from the village of Gellifelyn, on the right.

The River Brett curves around the farmhouse, now at the blocked end of the village street nearest to Monks Eleigh.

Bath Road is an extension of the village, which grew with the wool trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. Until a by-pass came in 1990, it carried both the A36 and A361.

At the end of the road from Countersett is Stalling Busk, looking out over Semerwater.

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times. Coal mining and quarrying also sustained the population.

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

There had been a church dedicated to St Werburgh, daughter of the King of Mercia, at Warburton before the Normans.