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This scene is still instantly recognisable from the green, where seats encircle a shade giving tree.

Grindleton is a classic case of village development: here ancient roads cross, and ribbon building took place along those roads.

Standing on the bank of the Great Ouse about a mile from the centre of Kempston, the parish church is a stone building wherein the tower, at least, is Norman in origin.

The Diamond stone sits alongside the Devizes to Swindon main road that goes through the village.

The pub fronts Main Street, sitting prominently at the junction of Cosby Road and Station Road, and appears to be the bad conversion of a former row of cottages.

When factories arrived in the village in the 19th century, development along the Wistow, Saddington and Kilby Roads was inevitable.

This is a 16th-century building par excellence, much altered and added to down the centuries; it is timbered, tile hung and jettied, and bears a cluster of tall chimneys.

We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.

The pub fronts Main Street, sitting prominently at the junction of Cosby Road and Station Road, and appears to be the bad conversion of a former row of cottages.

When factories arrived in the village in the 19th century, development along the Wistow, Saddington and Kilby Roads was inevitable.

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

The parish church is a remarkable one, funded reputedly in the mid 15th century by two wealthy unmarried sisters from Toddington in Bedfordshire - the Peover sisters' generosity is commemorated in the village

The parish of Abbots Ripton lies a few miles north of Huntingdon. At the time of the Dissolution it was held by Ramsey Abbey.

The old town of Cliffe, destroyed by fire in 1520, was revived briefly by the cement industry in the second half of the 19th century.

Many of the houses here have the initials NEC, standing for the New England Company that once owned the parish. On the left is the post office, which closed in the 1980s, and the Chequers Inn.

Under the spreading chestnut trees of St Mary`s churchyard, and on the opposite side of the village street, the photographer`s activities generate much interest from a mixed audience of both children

Heading east away from the Mendips onto the rolling eastern Somerset countryside, we reach Nunney.

A Saxon hill village, known as Gumeninga Hergae, or the shrine of Guma's people, in 767, it has now become well and truly subsumed into suburbia, and into Betjeman folklore through his poem of the same

Harcourt is taken from Harcourt in Normandy, and from Roger de Harewecurt, who held the village in 1202.

In the main, this is a large red-brick village, but a few thatched stone cottages remain, as in the photograph - note its superb hedges and simple topiary.

South Luffenham on the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and

This is a village in two halves, High Town and Low Town, a quarter mile apart. Land around here was once one of the royal hunting grounds. The White Horse, a chalk hill figure, was carved in 1857.

A view of this remote village, the largest settlement on Achill. Behind is Croaghaun, almost 2,200 ft high, which on the far side drops precipitously to the Atlantic.

Loughgall is an attractive Armagh village on the minor road between Portadown and Armagh. This view shows a quiet scene with only a few motor cars.