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This fine church in Wallasey Village is also known locally as the Harrison Memorial Church, because it was built as a memorial by the Harrison children for their parents, James and June Harrison.

The most famous resident of this attractive village was Sir Winston Churchill, who lived a short walk away at Chartwell.

It is often said to have been founded by Lady Godiva, but Meriden's main claim to fame is the ancient cross on the village green reputed to mark the centre of England.

Here, carriages wait to take passengers along the seafront or to the nearby small, inland villages of Bare and Torrisholme.

The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

At one time, Co-op shops stood in most towns and even some villages, this one belonging to the Society at nearby Carnforth.

Heysham old village is an attractive place, with an assortment of stone cottages lining the streets.

The whole of Gunton village is included in the park and grounds of Gunton Hall.

In the background, against the trees, the surviving spire of the 15th-century church looks down on this straggling village on the Romans' Stane Street linking London and Chichester.

Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village. The Three Tuns is still trading, and looks much the same today as it did when this picture was taken.

Here we see the 19th-century cottages of the village; the older part is well inland, and the newer development stretches from the old centre towards the sea.

Across the toll bridge from Batheaston, the road crosses the A4 dual carriageway Batheaston bypass into Bathampton, a village now linked by development to Bathwick and Bath.

In this view, almost unchanged today, we can see the essence of a typical Charnwood village. Pretty cottages with iron latticed windows compliment thatches old and new all along the main street.

The village shop (right) stands slightly higher than the terraced houses on either side, and all are built in local stone. Today the shop has reverted to being a private dwelling.

The A31 runs through the village, which stands between Farnham and Alton. Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, lived at Pax Hill from 1919 until his death in 1941; the house is now a nursing home.

It still shows many of the signs of a country village, and is complete with its Market Square, as our photograph shows. Longridge takes its name from being at the end of Longridge Fell.

This lovely village is said to command one of the finest views in Kent across the Weald towards Ashdown Forest. It sits alongside the Surrey boundary, two miles north of Edenbridge.

Greasbrough was once described as a pleasant village 'situated on a delightful eminence'; by the early 19th century it was a farming and mining community of over 1000.

Chilham is a delightful village set high on the downs. Its pretty houses grouped around a square by the castle gates lend it a timeless air.

This view of the church, and on to the river behind, retains a tranquil air uncommon to much of the village.

Noss Mayo's church, seen in the middle distance, was built on the orders of Lord Revelstoke in 1882 in a beautiful setting above both the village and river.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

This gives the village a unique charm.

This is a peaceful village scene, with an inn on the far right of the wide road. Visitors come here to see the lovely 15th-century church of St Leonard.