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The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. At the oar of the boat is a woman - quite adventurous for 1900.

Sandown's leading hotels were very expensive at this time: even a room in a boarding house cost six shillings a day.

The apparently unusually sharp incline of the launching ramp serving the lifeboat helped a speedy departure from the housing.

The three-storey gabled Manor House dates from the 16th century and faces onto the bridge.

Rolle Street was named after the prominent family that lived at nearby Bicton House.

The line was opened in 1887 and had an enormous impact on the village, creating a dramatic increase in house and shop building to accommodate the large numbers of visitors.

Today, with increased housing development, North Warnborough has almost joined up with Odiham. A new bypass has helped to reduce the high volume of traffic running through the village.

On the side of the house facing us is the date 1595. Behind the trees on the left is the church of St Michael. Note the fine example of thatching on the buildings in the foreground.

The only change to this scene is that the house on the left is now a barn, which is unusual.

This is the late 15th-century timber-framed Porch House, pictured about 20 years after its last restoration.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

The row of shops and houses was built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries on the New Quay, which, as the name suggests, had only just been reclaimed from tidal mud.

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.

The house dates from the reign of Elizabeth I, but was largely rebuilt following a major fire which undermined the structure in 1886.

The mix of shops and inns and residential houses in the High Street continues right through Lechlade, which grew up as a medieval market centre.

This tiny flint and stone church, capable of housing only some 20 worshippers, is one of the smallest churches in England.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses line the grassy banks.

Cracoe is a small hamlet of mainly 17th- and 18th-century houses on the minor road between Skipton and Grassington.

Solid Georgian houses group around the crossroads in the middle of Fremington, just outside Reeth in Swaledale.

The sloping Church Street leads up to the tower of the parish church, past The White Swan public house on the right.

The earlier manor house belonged to the Brent family, who are commemorated in the church.

Earlham Hall is a complex 16th- and 17th-century house in brick and flint, with early 18th-century shaped gables. It is now the School of Law of the University of East Anglia.

A winter river scene with the church in the distance; the boathouse with a path beside it belongs to Hartford House.

The houses are mostly thatched and built of stone. Bus timetables, an important part of any village, are on show next to the other essential, the village shop.