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This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

This 15th-century market cross stands in the centre of the village. The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227. These continued to be held until the 1960s.

Before reaching Chilbolton village, here is the Seven Stars public house and the beautiful River Test, viewed from the bridge. Across the water was once the railway.

Unlike most villages, the whole area is owned by a Trust, who charge visitors a fee.

This small pub on the outskirts of the isolated hamlet of Blackheath, with its shaded canopy and planted tubs, has undergone a name change, and now bears the uninspired title The Villagers.

One of the county's most attractive villages, Crondall has an assortment of picturesque cottages. It has an interesting history too.

Inland from Filey and Bridlington, this village contains a pond just behind the church of St Cuthbert, which is a chapel of ease for the mother church of All Saints at Hunmanby.

This was the original village, and it became the hub of Clevedon when the railway station was built there in 1847.

Originally the site of the village pump, this cross is at the junction of five roads. The George Inn, behind the cross, and the King's Arms (left) are now just houses.

Reputedly England's most haunted village, and a market town in the time of Henry III, Prestbury is now a residential suburb of Cheltenham.

This is probably the oldest part of the present village. The houses were built on a fair sized, flat piece of land sheltered by Penny Nab. There was easy access to and from the sea for the cobles.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

The name of this village means 'Walhbert's farm', and dates from at least Saxon times.

The picturesque village of Buriton stands in the shadow of Butser Hill, and by the pretty, tree-fringed pond lies the church, with its 13th-century tower watching over the tranquil scene.

The village's close proximity to Watling Street made it a prosperous community in medieval times.

He became known as 'Diamond' Pitt and, having made a profit of £100,000 on the sale, he rebuilt the village church in 1716.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

These flats beyond the ponds at Woodford Bridge were built in about 1959, and changed this remoter part of the parish from being what was generally described as a village into the general conurbation

Great Bardfield once had market rights, but it is now a quiet village. The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall.

Just beyond it stood the village lock-up (built 1828). In the 1990s, Black and White Notley were joined by a new, purpose-built sibling, Great Notley.

Part of the estate was later to become a golf course with exhilarating views of the surrounding countryside and attractive villages.

A church, shops and a village club all followed.

St Joseph's Catholic church stands in Arrowe Park Road, just a short step from the main cross-roads in the village. It was designed by Adrian Scott and opened in 1954.

The two villages of Offord Darcy and Offord Cluny run into each other. Facing a bend in the road is the Horseshoe Inn; the date 1626 is carved on the jettied cross wing of the inn.