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This is an unusual style for a Cotswold village church; Holy Trinity was built in 1836 for David Ricardo, MP, with a church hall in the crypt.

Although Writtle is close to Chelmsford, it still manages to retain a village atmosphere. Here we see a large, attractive duck pond. The shop with the awning still serves as the post office.

This sought-after village grew up at the head of Mylor Creek.

Here we see the type of tile-hung and weatherboarded cottages which abound in this area. The white fencing around the cottage gardens is very typical of villages in the Weald of Kent.

Village houses of different ages front the street. The thatched roof has a patterned blocked ridge. Next door is a small pub. The road leads down to the River Ouse and Buckden Mills.

Returning to the Great North Road, we come to Buckden.

This charming photograph shows two lads and a girl pulling a handcart carrying metal milk churns over the ford across the beck in Redmire, a village situated in mid Wensleydale.

Apart from the proximity of the railway station which saw the arrival of Royal visitors on their way to Sandringham, Wolferton was and is now a quiet little village.

Kidderminster is an excellent centre for visiting northern Worcestershire, with some fascinating villages and beautiful scenery nearby.

Tucked away among trees by Pill Hill Brook, Monxton Church, with its shingle-faced belfry and broach spire perched on the gable, was rebuilt in early Victorian times.

Milborne St Andrew is a favoured village of the ghost-hunter.

Chardstock was a Dorset village until 1886, when it was 'moved' across into Devon. The county border is not far away.

The Church 1890 In this picture the ancient village church looks brand new; it was.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn. In the 13th century, the local rector, Jacobus de Scabellis, became a cardinal, and ultimately, Pope Honorius IV.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'.

In translation, Tal-y-Llyn means 'the end of the lake': that aptly describes the location of the village, with its little church and inns in the shadow of Cadair Idris.

The façade of Ye Olde Red Lion pub in Park Road had undergone some minor changes shortly before this photograph was taken, with the removal of two decorative signboards above the main doorway and the replacement

Archdeacon Stonehouse built this imposing gateway leading up to the lychgate of St Martin's parish church in the 1840s.

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

We are looking from the start of the High Street towards the green.

The pub sells Tamplins beer (a Brighton-based brewery).

This splendid view from Thurstaston Hill looks over the village, with the spire of St Bartholomew's church projecting above the trees and roof tops.