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This village was long served by the nearby ferry terminal at New Holland.

Beaulieu village lies not far from Lymington, at the head of the Beaulieu River, and is attractive in itself.

Grimspound, a few miles north of the village of Widecombe, is one of the finest examples of a Bronze Age village in Europe. It lies half a mile off the road to the right.

Note the man just leaving the village shop on the right, and the complete absence of traffic in the village street.

Cigarettes, films and ice cream are among the heavily advertised items stocked at the village stores.

The growth of the village can be traced back to the second half of the 19th century. Road and rail links (it has two railway stations) make it ideal commuter country.

The post office that gave this picture its name was based in the building on the left, which was also a village shop. Today there is no village shop, nor a post office.

Paul is the mother village for Mousehole, which lies down on the coast below.

The village is built up around the church, which had its 800th anniversary in 1990. Many of the villagers celebrated by taking part in a play written by Sheila Yeger, the famous playwright.

This picture was taken five years after the celebrated composer Vaughan Williams visited the village of Ingrave collecting old folk songs.

King's Norton is less than two miles from Bournville, and though urban sprawl between the wars linked it to Birmingham, the old village still retains much of its rural character.

The village's favourable microclimate encourages the profusion of climbing plants up the walls of the houses, which have the steep pitched stone roofs typical of Cotswold villages.

A quiet corner of the tiny village of Cark, where the River Eea flows under a low bridge into the sands of Morecambe Bay. Note the upturned cart by the bridge.

Originally known simply as Cleeve, this village gained its prefix at the time when it was owned by the Bishop of Worcester.

This is a typical Edwardian scene, with a group of villagers looking coyly at the camera. Today, with increased housing development, North Warnborough has almost joined up with Odiham.

A cart delivers fresh water around the village of Puncknowle. The water came gushing from a grotto in the middle of the village.

The Village Sign c1955 Mayfield's well-known village sign showing a young girl and children in a meadow won second prize (£500) in a national newspaper competition in 1920.

Shop and inn make up the heart of this village, built round the edge of an enormous village green. There was a market here from at least 1280.

Towards the edge of the village are former Rural District Council houses, now with lusher gardens, and opposite is a former Nonconformist chapel dated 1898.

Since the Middle Ages, Mobberley has not had a dominant landowner resident in the village.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, though there was still some quarrying carried out in the locality.

The village of Easington lies just to the east of Loftus.

This village, three miles from Andover, is renowned for awarding virgins' crowns at the funerals of chaste villagers who were members of the village church and born here.

This fine seven-arch Grecian-style bridge over the River Don was built in 1850; it linked the village to Warmsworth, and replaced the ferry service.