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It is often said that this place is the largest village in England. The coming of the railway in the 19th century turned it into one of the more genteel suburbs of the city.

The trees on the green in the estate village of Bolton Abbey at the entrance to Wharfedale had just been subjected to a severe pollarding when the Frith photographer called to take this photograph.

Post-war expansion of Cambridge pushed the suburbs into outlying villages. We can see early signs of the requirement to control traffic flow with the now ubiquitous Keep Left bollards.

Guest houses such as this one were once a common feature of villages; many no longer serve the same purpose.

During the 20th century Burley grew considerably in size, with a number of villa-style residences tucked away among the trees and heathlands. It has never lost its village atmosphere.

On the left are RDC houses perhaps built in the 1950s. Further down, a large barn and an old house beyond.

St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe. Locally the church is known as 'the Queen of the Marsh'.

Further up Church Road, we are looking at the backs of 18th-century houses on Church End, the lane which leads to the medieval parish church of St Laud, out of shot to the left.

Morfa Nefyn is a holiday village on the Lleyn peninsula; it is situated near Porth Dinllaen on Caernarfon Bay. With barely enough wind to keep under way, small craft lie just offshore.

The village is said to have begun as a result of a shipwreck, when the survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.

Leading north off Warwick Road, Frog Lane is one of most attractive lanes in the village, albeit now interspersed with modern houses of the 1960s onwards.

Seen here from the Swithland Road, the church, which is faced in slate from the local quarries, was designed in 1836 by William Railton (1801- 77), a Gothic Revivalist and architect to the Ecclesiastical

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire. The village has many historic houses.

Seen here from the Swithland Road, the church, which is faced in slate from the local quarries, was designed in 1836 by William Railton (1801- 77), a Gothic Revivalist and architect to the Ecclesiastical

This unspoiled row of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses facing onto the church was built and owned mainly by small farmers and tradesmen, who formed the backbone of the rural affluent society

The road widens to form Posey Green, with the 1930s Horseshoe Inn on the right out of camera shot; it is a rambling mix of local sandstone and timber-framing with a huge horseshoe-

This view looks from Godstone Road to the Plaistow Street-Newchapel Road junction.

William Hancocks of Blakeshall Hall and his wife laid the foundation stone of Cookley church on 20 February 1849.

Up the hill towards one of Chalfont St Peter's commons, Gold Hill, Tudor-style shops and flats were built on the north side of the road in 1922, called Market Place and decked out with fake

Here we see yet another of the beautiful Lincolnshire windmills; this one was built in 1813. Again it is in the Lincolnshire style, with an ogee cap and five sails.

The three young girls could be sauntering home from school with not a care in the world.

These immaculately thatched cottages still exist, although they are rather run-down nowadays. Today the three villages of South, Middle and North Littleton all virtually run into each other.

Graffham is a wooded hillside village under the Downs. Pescod's Stores has a Hovis sign on a painted wall.

The Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence, where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.