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The village, with its interesting thatched and Georgian houses, lost its post office in 1997.

The road through the village became one of the first turnpike roads in Oxfordshire.

It is not difficult to see why Thomas Hardy used Letcombe Bassett as the setting for the fictional village of Cresscombe in his novel Jude The Obscure.

A deserted seat stands invitingly under the spreading chestnut tree on the village green at Cropton, four miles from Pickering on the southern edge of the North York Moors.

The nearby village of Culham lies on a curve of the Thames, and is noted for its bridge built by Christ's Hospital and damaged during the Civil War.

It was in this village, in an old malt house, that pictures from the National Gallery were once stored, well away from London's air raids, during the Second World War.

The ancient road linking the villages on the west side of the county became an alternative route for the cattle drovers when the Great North Road was turnpiked in 1662.

The Rose and Crown Hotel, and the Victorian estate cottages behind, are typical of houses elsewhere in the village - many of them have dated plaques.

Next door the village grocer's shop was formerly run by the noted local archaeologist Benjamin Harrison (1837- 1921), who was responsible for the discovery of numerous early flint tools in the vicinity

This small south Norfolk village runs along a single street. The high pitch of the roof on the house to the right suggests that it may originally have been of thatch.

The church of St Thomas stands in the village, and nearby can be found Byland Abbey and Newburgh Priory. Today the hill is covered by a flourishing forest.

Kirby was the most blitzed English village during the last war: a lone bomber came over following a raid on the Midlands and destroyed many buildings.

Here we can see the village in quieter days, before the constant stream of cars that flood into Broadway today. The heaviest traffic shown here is this horse-drawn covered wagon.

At nearby Fishlake, the village church is noted for its late Norman doorway. At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

This village's name was spelled 'Gisburne' until the railway arrived in 1885. The parish boundaries include Rimington, Newsholme, Nappa, Paythorne and other locations.

Five bridges span the River Windrush in the village. The most recent commemorates the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Picturesque stone cottages line the main street through the village, which climbs from a bridge over Downham Beck to St Leonard's Church.

One is a former colliery village and the seat of the Surtees family; the other appears to be known for the number of Nonconformist chapels it contains.

Bacton was an important village in medieval Norfolk, because its monastery (at Bromholme) was one of the most-visited places of pilgrimage in England: it possessed a section of the True Cross, a very holy

This photograph shows the village end of the Beach Road, with two general stores, both carrying many advertisement signs.

The Friary Courtyard c1960 The friary is situated on the outskirts of Aylesford village.

This footbridge is still to be found in the village. The young man may be delivering post, judging by his bag.

Middle Wallop is a village of at least twenty-six houses with a garage, a pub and an army airfield.

The village was laid out from 1790 by mill owner Samuel Greg to house his mill workers, and was one of a number built in east Cheshire by industrialists.