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The River Winniford (right), trickling down the valley from Chideock village, seeps into Lyme Bay through a bank of pebbles below the Anchor Inn (centre).

The village also had a butcher, another grocer, two boot makes, an undertaker, a plumber, two carpenters, a market gardener and bee keeper and an insurance agent, as well as the three public houses.

The village was an important market town when neighbouring Budleigh Salterton consisted of a few scattered fishermen's cottages.

This is the road that leads to the village school. The house in the centre, Cabbaches, proclaims the date 1390 on a plaque near its front door.

Today, Bere Regis is a charming and peaceful village.

Thereafter Snodland quickly grew from a quiet, almost wholly agricultural village, into a small town, fed by the two main industries: cement and paper-making.

Note the narrow walled fields leading off from the village street, which echo medieval strip cultivation. In the background is the Lose Hill-Back Tor ridge.

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.

The beautiful chapel in the castle is still used today by villagers for Anglican services.

In medieval times Holcombe was built up a hill to escape the plague in the old village below. It prospered thanks to coal mining, and packhorses carried the coal down the street to the Fosse Way.

Village stocks were once attached to this cross, which stands at the junction of roads to Wells, Draycot and Westbury.

The name of the Crispin Inn in Great Longstone recalls one of the village's former specialities, boot and shoe making - St Crispin is the patron saint of that trade.

To the west of Castor lies Ermine Street, a Roman road; excavations have shown that the village is built over a large Roman estate.

The unusual placename of Kippax, a village to the east of Leeds, comes from the Saxon, and means 'Cyppa's ash tree'.

During the last war, the American forces stationed outside the village lived in Tent City, and an avenue of lime trees has been planted as a memorial to them.

Today, the village is a thriving suburb of Oxford, with many shops, banks and offices. Signs on the wall of the house on the left advertise Lyon's Tea, Red Bell Tobacco and Borwick's Baking Powder.

The road dividing the village green in two can be seen running behind the bus shelter beside the tree on the left.

Great Malvern village is set against the stunning backdrop of the Malvern Hills, that great range of summits that rises above the surrounding plains of Worcestershire; they form one of the finest ridge

At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked

in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at the end of the village

This well was erected opposite the village church by the Rev Samuel Trist, and was later restored to commemorate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in November 1912.

The village is in a pleasant spot on the road from Esher to Hampton Court. Some fine old cottages and a pond border the large green and common.

This leafy approach to the village of Hermitage remains much the same today as it was in the 1950s.

A path leads from the tiny village across the fields to low cliffs above this quiet beach.