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The tree-lined B4017, running south to north, bisects a village green that is reputed to be one of the finest in the county.

Twyford is a large village near Winchester, divided by the main road. This tree can be found in St Mary's churchyard.

Buckden is beautifully situated under Buckden Pike, which soars to 2,302 feet above the village and provides a fine viewpoint across Wharfedale.

In 1779, the peace of this tiny village was shattered by the noise of gunfire when the ships of the Royal Navy and the ships of the United States came together in the Battle of Flamborough Head.

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

Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people.

Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people.

A little more than one mile to the west of Leith is the small fishing village of Newhaven. It was here that James IV founded a royal dockyard where he could build his navy.

This posed picture shows the lower part of the village.The 15th-century tower of the village church is peeping out on the skyline on the left.

Corringham was a small, remote village before the coming of the oil-refineries: the petrol-station sign in the distance says it all. This parade was built in 1929.

The village straddles the main A41 Chester Road with the main shopping area spread out in a linear fashion on either side of the road, as we can see here.

It is market day, and the bystanders are waiting for transport to carry them back to their villages.

This small village sits between the sea and fields of bright laven- der. At Caley Mill there is a lavender water distillery, and in late summer the fields shimmer with a deep blue.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy Devon beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

On the right is the pound, or village lock-up, built of sandstone.

The clock itself is a one-handed 18th-century model, and has been a useful village timekeeper.

What an idyllic scene this is, and Stoneleigh remains a good-looking village, despite modernisation, traffic and a rather perilous proximity to Coventry.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor-style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

Until recently Alsager was primarily an agricultural village, which is most appropriate - its name means 'the cultivated land of a man called Aelle'.

Beoley predates Redditch, but it remains a small village on the northern edge of the present New Town.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

A pleasant enough small church, set as a church should be in grassy, tombed surroundings, well populated by recumbent villagers.

Some distance away is the small village of Downholme, once bustling, with lead workings nearby, now close to Catterick Garrison's firing ranges.

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph