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But for centuries the village was the location of a substantial monastery. Only a few ruins and the tithe barn remain.

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

The village has long been famous for Basing House, a ruined building reduced to rubble by Cromwell and his army during the Civil War.

On the high ground between Dover and Canterbury are a number of one-time mining villages; amidst them is the surprisingly attractive hamlet of Frogham, a collection of pretty cottages.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills. It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

Thirty years before this photograph was taken, the village had been devastated by a dreadful flood when two dams, the Eigau and the Coedty, broke after a fortnight of torrential rain.

hills stride out purposefully past the Rayburne Hotel and cafe in the centre of Coniston village.The lack of traffic in the main street is in sharp contrast with the scene today in this busy little village

This wooden bridge was built over the River Llugwy so that the miners living in the village of Pentre Du could get to the lead mines of the Gwydir Forest.

The village of Yapton lies between Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. Note the church's jumble of unusual angles and architectural styles.

Newick is situated halfway between two great Christian centres of worship—Canterbury and Winchester—so the village was used as a resting-place for pilgrims.

The view eastwards from Higher Sea Kabe (left) looks across a pastoral Charmouth before the village extended to the sea.

The rough village seat is overshadowed by the spreading chestnut tree: all are still there, half a century along.

This view shows W and V Soppet's village stores (centre).

The centre of the village is used to hold the annual May Fair.

The iron pier was built in 1874 by the lessees of the Eastham Ferry Hotel, obviously with an eye to improving their own trade as well as that of the village.

Several other farmhouses and cottages in the village have medieval origins.

The first village settlement was around a huge green beside the Car Dyke, a Roman ditch that connected Cambridge with Peterborough and the north.

This 16th-century arch, leading from the original village down to the harbour, was once fitted with a portcullis and gates as a protection for the settlement against pirates and sea-raiders.

A typical village of the Kent Weald, with its weatherboarded cottages clustered round its green, Bethersden was once famous for its paludrina marble extracted from the local clay and consisting of the

Ingoldisthorpe is an open village on the sandy soils of north-west Norfolk.

Puddletown is rich in associations with Thomas Hardy, for this pleasant and busy village is the Weatherbury of his novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd'.

The little village of Pilley lies to the west of Beaulieu Heath, above the low-lying ground surrounding the Beaulieu River.

At one time the county boundary, now defined by the River Tamar two miles to the north, ran between the two villages, and the old boundary stone can still be seen beside the road.

The church, dedicated in 1124 to St Kyneburga, the third of four daughters of Peada, King of Mercia and founder of the abbey at Peterborough, stands on a slight rise overlooking the village of Castor and