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This is a general view showing the limestone cottages of the village.

Widecombe, probably Dartmoor's most well-known village, stands in the broad valley ('Wide Combe') of the East Webburn river.

Most Peak District villages have such chapels, as non-conformism was common in mining communities like these.

Monzie stands to the north-west of Crieff near the village of Gilmerton.

The DuCane family, merchants of Huguenot descent, bought a large estate near the village in 1751. Their house, built in 1670, underwent extensive alterations in 1752-56.

King George III put Mudeford on the map when he visited the then tiny village in 1803.

It is a pleasant old Saxon village, almost overlooked by the passage of time.

The ferry across the Ouse played an important part in village life until the bridge in the foreground was built at the end of the 19th century.

Great Ayton is one of Cleveland's prettiest villages, and was the scene of the upbringing and education of Captain James Cook, the famous 18th-century world explorer.

Continuing through the village, we come to The Black Bull public house (centre); the parish church stands in the background.

Further down the main road through the village we see the stream, which is still here, and in the distance St Agatha's chapel of 1849. The house on the left is now demolished.

In total, 107 buildings in the village are listed as having special historical and architectural interest.

Loders Post Office, run by J A Wells, can be seen in a view eastwards from the middle of the village. Waynflete and Lothers (left) face No 41 and the Loders Arms (right of centre).

The direction sign points to the county town, 10 miles away, and there is the classic confection of village life - church, public house with a wall against which to lean your bicycle, and the bus stop

St Barnabas's Church stands behind the two gate pillars (right), and a memorial in a nearby wall lists the village's fallen from the First and Second World Wars.

Littlebourne is one of the charming villages which are scattered throughout the orchard-rich swathe of countryside which reaches between Canterbury and Wingham.

A charming village scene that has scarcely changed at all in over 30 years.

The village of Iffley has been swallowed up by Oxford, though its true heart remains intact. Iffley Mill, first mentioned in 1106, was destroyed by fire in 1908.

The 19th-century radical farmer and journalist William Cobbett lived in Botley and described it as 'the most delightful village in the world'.

Auction posters are wrapped round the wooden village signpost.

These have long since been closed, and the village is a rural backwater again. In this picture we can see, the local Post Office on the left; it also carried out electrical and radio servicing.

While the harbour area is well known to tourists, the true village of Boscastle climbs a steep hill to the south, where it was by-passed in 1886.

At nearby Fishlake, the village church is noted for its late Norman doorway. At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

The elegant double-span bridge over the River Derwent at Froggatt dates from the 17th century; it is unusual in that it has a large, pointed central arch nearer to the village and a smaller one on the