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Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

Burwell means 'spring by the fort'.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

We are looking north, with the White Swan on the left and tall trees near the church in the centre. The grass in the foreground would soon bear a 1914-18 war memorial.

It is seventy-five years on from view 18148, and the scene is little changed other than a slight realignment of the track in the foreground, which leads to the centre of the village of Newton

This was such a tranquil place in 1906; but now it lies on the main Dales road from Hawes to Leyburn.

Th A415 heads south along the 15th-century causeway above the marshy river meadows to Culham Bridge, built in 1416-22 by Abingdon's Fraternity of the Holy Cross, but now by-passed by a modern bridge.

A community of Cokelers, a religious group otherwise known as the Dependents, once lived in the village.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.

Here is the local post office in more rural days; it also served as a general stores. In 1895 the village had the benefit of a post and money order office, supervised from?Gravesend.

The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

A postman on his round chats to two local residents opposite the King's Head pub (right), where empty barrels and several crates of bottles await collection by the brewer's dray.

From the entrance of the enclosed harbour, the village looks the perfect small beachside resort. Its quaint, colour-washed cottages complement the easy access to the beach.

Just a mile inland from Hinderwell, the village of Ellerby is centred on this late 17th-century hostelry.

Main Street here leads up to Beeford Road in the direction of the 13th-century church of All Saints, with its circular churchyard. This road also leads to the remains of the old castle.

The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

The village used to be called Auldkirk because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the sixteenth century.

Holy Trinity is in North Tidworth, the centre of the civilian area. A small 13th-century building, Holy Trinity is rather hidden away, but it is the village's jewel.

The village of Hampton is quite compact and largely ignored by those rushing through in their cars.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

The parked lorry belongs to Jones & Co, Corn and Seed Merchant; perhaps it is more than mere coincidence that a transport café is just across the road.

We are looking northwards across the common, where the shingle-clad spire of Christ Church dominates the skyline.

Helsby's name means the 'village on a ledge', but it would be more correct to say that it nestles just under the ledge or outcrop of rock seen here.