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Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape

The village was a fairly substantial fishing port throughout the 19th century, and into the 20th century. A variety of fish was landed, including mackerel, cod and haddock.

The village sits astride the A6, only two miles north of Mountsorrel, and although deeply embedded in granite country, the buildings in the photograph lack any of that hard-edged quality.

Today the village remains unspoiled, despite substantial road development nearby.

Here we see a conversation piece in the town centre, a century and a quarter after the proprietor of the Royal Goat changed the village's name and erected Gelert's Grave nearby.

The scene is one mile east of the village - the sign shows Lloyd George, who came to live in Churt in 1921 and left in 1944, the year before his death. His house, Bron y de, formerly stood nearby.

The High Street is unusually wide for a Surrey village, with the Town Hall of 1814 in the centre. There is remarkably little traffic in the picture.

In the 1840s Starcross received a boost with the arrival of Brunel's railway, but the village became best known for the enormous institution for mental patients which was built here in 1877.

In the churchyard is the last resting place of James Hammett, the only Tolpuddle Martyr to return to live in his home village.

The post office stores continues to supply the needs of the village, and even the letterbox, advising that 'letters containing coin, paper money, or jewellery should not be posted in the

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Very much a village pub, the Swan has a beer garden at the back to cater for the local populace, who number around 500, and visitors who come this way to walk round this quiet spot.

Both now privately owned houses, the building on the right was the village shop and post office, whilst the black and white building was once a pub, the Eagle and Child, more popularly

The village war memorial (right), on the green in Castleton's Market Place, takes the form of a Celtic cross.

This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

The village, thought to date to Saxon times, takes its name from the nearby hill-fort. On the left here is the Maltsters' Arms, still a thriving public house.

Deddington is the village that was fictionally demolished by a crane in the TV series Blott on the Landscape.

The pretty little estate village of Ripley stands at the entrance to Nidderdale.

The stream running through the village was dammed in the 19th century to supply water for Bristol and three local mills.

The meeting of the rivers with their tiny bridges adds to the charm of the village and its thatched cottages. In the foreground are Closewool sheep, typical of Exmoor.

Here the village is seen from the churchyard, which adjoins a beautiful Jacobean manor house. The triangle with the phone box was once a grassy area where there were hustings at election times.

The village became well known for several popular coaching inns, the Georgian Castle, the White Hart and the Crown, which is seen on the right.

This seaside village is steeped in history. Nearby is Culver Hole, a man-made cave in which the local prince is said to have taken refuge from marauding English troops.

Coltishall is one of several Norfolk villages said to be haunted by Old Shuck - a black dog the size of a calf.