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The village's population has increased at least ten-fold in the intervening half century, but many of its historic buildings such as the Pickering Arms (right) have been preserved.

Sitting up on the moors, nine miles southwest of Whitby, is the village of Goathland. It became involved in the hydropathic movement with the opening of the Goathland Hydropathic Establishment.

This was a feature of the old village of Letchworth, but one which was brought into the master plan for the new garden city.

, vicar of North Bovey in the latter half of the 19th century, was initially less than impressed with his flock: 'My new parishioners were very turbulent people ... the women were awful ... the whole village

The village store faces the war memorial on the green, which appears to have been fenced off. Surely this was not protection from vandals!

Lullington Church stands a short walk away from Alfriston village, across the White Bridge over the Cuckmere. It is one of the smallest churches in England - it seats about 20 people.

Just before the turn of the century, and again soon after the Second World War, Datchet suffered serious flooding when the swollen Thames caused a pond in the village to overflow.

He collected a large library of chained books (the books were chained to their shelves so that they could not be taken away) which he bequeathed to the villagers.

He collected a large library of chained books (the books were chained to their shelves so that they could not be taken away) which he bequeathed to the villagers.

Beyond the village rises Wetherlam, the most northerly of the Coniston Fells, and over to the left, hidden by cloud, Lancashire's highest peak, the Old Man.

Because of its importance, the locals take great pride in keeping the whole village maintained in an immaculate condition.

The unmade road leads from the village to the beach. The sand-dunes are covered with marram grass, which helps knit them together and prevent erosion on this windy coast.

Great Tew was originally designed as an estate village in the 19th century, with the intention of blending architectural beauty with utility and agricultural management.

The three-storied and broad-fronted architecture in this section of the village indicates a predominance of wealth and large families among the original owners, following the rebuilding after the fire

Cragg Vale, seen here from above the village, was a remote hamlet above the Calder Valley in the 18th century, when it was the base of a notorious gang of counterfeiters known as the 'Cragg Vale Coiners

This view of the village's main road was taken looking east. It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.

This was the famed 'village which never saw the sun'.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

The village shop and post office are featured prominently in this picture.

This photograph clearly shows the pleasing symmetry and scale of the sensitive development carried out by the Onyx Property Investment Company at the centre of the village over the preceding decades.

The busy industrial village of Millom on the Duddon Estuary was founded on the wealth won from the iron ore discovered at nearby Hodbarrow in 1868.

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

The post office has moved to another part of the village.

Barford St John is a typical example of the remoteness of some of the villages in north-west Oxfordshire.