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This later view of the pond is worth comparing to the earlier photograph of the same scene. Horses have given way to the ubiquitous motor car, and the village is catering for the car-borne tourist.

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine. Notice the steep steps in the lower foreground, dropping away toward the sea.

The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.

St Anne's church, consecrated in 1833, was built on a slope above the village near the site of the old church of the same name which had been attached to St Germans Priory.

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

It is hard to believe that this narrow road was once part of one of the major highways of England which had linked London and Chester since medieval times.

The centre of the village, with its attractive houses round the green, is marked by a market cross reminding us that Henry III had granted a license to Thomas de Greystoke for a weekly market and fair

There are two old yew trees here, and in 2000, to mark the Millennium, numerous cuttings were taken and planted throughout the village.

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above

The mill is just south of the village on the Birkey Burn. The miller's house is dated 1728, and the three-storey mill building is also 18th-century.

The village flourmill was powered by two overshot waterwheels. The mill is pictured when it was still in working order.

This is the junction of Station Road (right) and, until the by-pass was opened, the main Stowmarket to Ipswich road. In the foreground is the Greyhound, with a delivery being made to the side door.

In this view the church seems to close the end of the village green. The three groups of cottages are timber-framed and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Just off the main road through unspoilt Bilsdale is the northern part of the village of Chop Gate. Bilsdale Hall is hidden behind the trees (centre).

We can see the village of Clun in the valley, with the keep of its old castle standing guard. Actually this castle was less a military stronghold than a centre for hunting.

C M Topp the grocer (far left) is still trading. There was also a newsagent here. Just off the main street in North Road is the Methodist church.

Underneath this main road flows a stream that rises from a spring under the church of the Holy Rood, built in the 12th century.

The gaunt ruins of the Neville's castle built in the early 1380s dominate the skyline of the village of Sheriff Hutton, nine miles north of York.

Witchampton's flour mill closed before the Second World War, but the remains of the huge mill wheel, including its tree trunk shaft, can still be seen outside Flour Mill House.

This is a view of the real centre of the village looking up Oakham Lane.

Down the street stands Welton's church, dedicated to St Martin and distinguished by its square 14th-century tower. Inside is an ancient tub-shaped font, said to be Saxon.

The building to the right of this image is the Bull, known as the Bull's Head in the 17th century.

Clifton upon Teme's name is rather misleading, for the village itself stands a considerable distance from that river.