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A blacksmith's forge used to stand beside this packhorse bridge spanning Winn Brook, one of eight bridges boasted by this tiny village. It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.

The small area of ground in the fork in the road was donated to the village by Major Anthony Buxton DSO, JP of Horsey Hall.

The east end of Brimington's 19th-century parish church is just visible behind the trees in this view of the centre of the village, between Chesterfield and Staveley.

Clovelly is an estate village (tourists have to pay to enter), and it has remained undeveloped.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

Despite encroaching development, there is still the hint of a quaint old village here at Ferring.

Littleham became fashionable during the Georgian period when such notables as Lady Nelson, who was estranged from her naval hero husband, came to live in the village.

In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village. Suppressed during the Dissolution, the monastic church, which was also the parish church, survived.

Benjamin Horth, the then headmaster, was also the village postman. Before the Education Act, pupils paid 1d a week to attend.

These buses going to and from Sheerness provided many villagers with their only transport to the main town on the island.

This Fylde village changed only with the advent of motorised traffic.

At the ceremony villagers gather in the churchyard, hold hands, and form a circle round the church while singing hymns.

A cyclist makes his way to Mid Hants Supply Stores in the centre of the village. To the right is a Victorian school and the church of St Barnabas.

The whitewashed façade of the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th

Here in the old part of the village were once shops, a school and a pub. A Victorian post box sits in the wall on the right, out of view.

The name of this village derives from 'dyke gate', referring to the control of water through sluices.

This village prospered thanks to the quarries on Ham Hill, and the High Street has some fine 17th-century houses built in Ham stone.

Beoley predates Redditch, but it remains a small village on the northern edge of the present New Town.

The banks of this river tower over most of the buildings in the village, such is the shrinkage of the local peat landscape.

As the village gradually declined as the port silted up, so its large and impressive church was reduced in size. Only the tower survives intact, and the brick nave was built inside the ruin in 1672.

Ashford was a centre of lead mining in the 18th and 19th centuries, and is now a popular tourist village.

Sometimes described as the county's finest unspoilt Elizabethan country house, Barlborough Hall has stood to the north of Barlborough, a north-east Derbyshire village, for four centuries.

Looking down the hill from above the station, we see the bridge carrying the Settle- Carlisle railway line running along the edge of the village.

The village of Longdon lies on the western edge of some high ground, separating Longdon Marsh from the River Severn.