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One of the most important cross- village links, Gores Lane appears under one guise or another on all the oldest maps of Formby.

Tirley lies a few miles downstream from Tewkesbury on the Severn. The school was established by the church in 1842, and its design is typical of others found in villages hereabouts.

Ferring is a residential village near the sea. The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion.

Immortalised by Laurie Lee in his autobiography 'Cider With Rosie', Slad and its wooded valley is known throughout the world by millions of readers who have never been there.

Sad to say, the fine thatched house and barn have not survived; only the row of Rose Cottages stand today as a reminder of the tiny village of Wyddial.

William Morris described Bibury as the most beautiful village in England, and it has charmed visitors throughout the ages with its quintessential Cotswold character and composition.

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.

A conversation piece in Kingsdown village. With the First World War still rumbling on the Union flag has been hoisted on its white flagpole, but it hardly stirs in the summer breeze.

ONE of the great joys of Exmouth is its beautiful setting, caught magnificently between the sea, the long Exe estuary and the wilder countryside of heath and cliff that so defines east Devon, offering

This is typical of the style of a Dorset village house, with low thatched roof and thatched porches. The sign on the wall offers coffees, accommodation, teas and lunches.

The Meare was a three feet deep lake, actually formed by accident when the Hundred River flooded. Estate owner Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie decided to keep it, building his holiday village around it.

Corpach lies to the north of Fort William, where Loch Linnhe turns sharply to the west, narrowing and then widening out again to form Loch Eil.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

The enamel signs would make a modern bric-a-brac dealer drool, and the lorry is loaded with hessian grain sacks open to the sun.

The new building on the corner of the High Street, with its three large shops and two floors of flats above, can be seen in greater detail in this photograph.

Cookham will forever be associated with the artist Stanley Spencer who was born in Cookham in 1891 and died in 1959.

The village nestles at the foot of Ingleborough, one of the famous Three Peaks, but it was the waterfalls walk that brought town dwellers to the area.

Across the chalk ridge, the route returns to the greensand country, and to one of Surrey's prettiest and most wooded areas.

Although primarily a post office and village store, the signs tell us that teas were also served here 'neath the apple trees'.

The Church 1890. In this picture the ancient village church looks brand new; it was.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

Most villages supported several shops and pubs. Gnosall also had two canal-side pubs, the Boat Inn by Bridge No 34, and the Navigation Inn by Bridge No 35.

In its heyday, Swansea's industrial catchment was vast, easily encompassing the little village of Llansamlet. Overlooking the Tawe Valley, it grew thanks to its tin-plate and spelter works.