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As the town grew further away from the village and the parish church, a new Anglican place of worship was necessary.

In its lee is the old Roman road, Ermine Street, while at its foot, on the spring line, are a line of villages, mostly built from the local limestone.

The Roman road of Stane Street bisects the village of Billingshurst. The shop of W J Barnes (on the left) stands on the causeway; it was formerly the old family shop of Joseph Luxford, a carrier.

Here we have an interesting village street. Wares from the small shop on the right spill out onto the pavement, and among other commodities it advertises petrol!

This upper part of the village is situated in the foothills of the Pennine Chain.

It lies in an isolated site outside the village, and is dedicated to St Andrew.

The road off to the left leads to the very ancient village of Woodnesborough ('Woden's barrow'), said to be where the Scandinavian god Woden was buried.

This railway town was some two miles north of the original village of Old Woking. The London to Southampton railway arrived in 1838, and 'new' Woking began to develop.

The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden, which stands alongside the River Wharfe.

The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe. The harbour was once connected with local mines by a railway - the tracks can be seen on the left of the photograph.

Originally a separate village, Lexden is now absorbed in Colchester's south-western expan- sion, but its identity is still clear with the church at its heart.

Numerous footpaths and bridleways offer access to surrounding villages and towns.

The village side streets are reminders of local farmers who long ago made their living off the land here. In the early part of the 20th century the nearby wharf was still a bustling place.

Duntisbourne Abbots was once the property of the Abbots of Gloucester; it is the northernmost of a string of villages lining the River Dunt.

The 19th-century radical farmer and journalist William Cobbett lived in Botley and described it as 'the most delightful village in the world'.

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

The Boat House on the right of this view was one of the earliest buildings of Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's holiday village to be completed in 1911, even before the Meare itself was finished.

Today, it is a sleepy little village off the frantically busy main road, and seldom visited by outsiders who simply do not know it is there. This view is virtually unchanged almost a century on.

This hilltop village, a few miles to the south of Basildon, is known for its attractive architecture and ancient church.A society now promotes the preservation and appreciation of the compact village.The

Though all of its woodlands, formerly used for pannage (grazing by swine), were taken for use by the Conqueror as hunting land, the villagers received no reduction in rent.

It is difficult to imagine that this peaceful village was a market town in the Middle Ages.

Much of Puddletown was rebuilt in 1864, but the area around the church suggests the village that Hardy would have known in his boyhood.

The chalk scars in the landscape beyond are a reminder that this is one of the Medway- side villages that owes much to the 19th-century cement industry.