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Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.

This large village with houses showing mixed building styles centres on the crossroads near St James's Church. Note the air raid siren above the door of the Old Black Swan.

Dittisham is one of the larger villages along the steeply wooded banks of the romantic Dart estuary. A foot ferry takes passengers across the river to Greenway, once the home of Dame Agatha Christie.

Acle is a small market town, now really a village; it was granted its market charter in the 13th century. It became a major cattle-market, receiving a boost when the railway arrived.

Modern cleanliness - how different from the days when animals were driven or wandered through villages. Chalfont Cottage still had its thatch, but not for much longer after 1955.

Wannock gardens were created in the 1930s on the site of a watermill. The model village was a popular tripper attraction. We see it just before the site was developed for full-size housing.

The battlemented parish church of St James in the former lead mining village of Bonsall dates mainly from the 13th century, and has a distinguished pinnacled tower and spire built in the

An early 20th-century view of that bastion of English life, the Post Office. Here is a lovely half- timbered building in this picturesque little village on the Canterbury road.

A small village just south of Devizes, Potterne still has some famous and wonderfully ancient buildings. It was once a manor of the Bishops of Salisbury.

William Crowe, rector of Stoke, wrote a paean of praise to Lewesdon Hill, which drew the admiration of William Wordsworth: '...of hills, and woods and fruitful vales, and villages, half-hid in tufted

An enormous horse-chestnut tree dominates this photograph of a typical Broadland village: reed cutting is still carried out here.

The cottages of the new village were probably healthier and more substantial than those of the old settlement.

Flanked by two extensions, the oldest part of this inn dates from the 17th century, and is an important building in today's village. It still has a rural atmosphere.

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'.

Linwood is situated high on the heathlands of the western edge of the New Forest, overlooking the broad valley of the Avon.

Before the days of a piped water supply, the well to the left would be the focus of a village life well known to the little boy standing at the doorway just beyond it.

The main street is deserted. Lower Bentham stands 15 miles east of Lancaster on the slopes of the Pennines.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

Tesco, then offering the once very popular Green Shield Stamps, has today moved to a larger site. But Beckenham Toys is still in the High Street.

In the simpler days of the 1950s, village post offices across Dorset were places where the whole community might meet and were a vital lifeline to the outside world.

A spacious green lies at the heart of this charming Sussex village. The church stands on rising ground, and has a distinctive off-centre tower.

Leading from the old village to the harbour beyond, this 16th-century arch, originally fitted with a portcullis and gates, was built to protect the settlement against pirates and smugglers.

Situated on the edge of the Fens, Wilingham is a typical example of the 'shoreline' villages that prospered through their access to better grazing for their sheep.

Bonchurch stands on the steep slopes of St Boniface Down. Both the hillside and village are named after the Devon-born churchman who brought Christianity to Germany.