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This wide triangle of grass forms the centre of this straggling village, which stretches for almost four miles.

This pretty village has changed little over the years, apart from an increase in traffic - here the Bell Hotel claims to have a large car park.

Home of the famous 'Furry-Day', Helston was an important market centre for local produce.

A group of customers wait to saddle-up for an excursion from the White House Riding School at Huntington, a small village just to the north of York.

Despite modern development, Westbourne, to the west of Bournemouth, retains its village atmosphere. Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Within the church is a fine chantry chapel, unusual in a parish church.

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester and to the west of the busy A6.

The road from the village ends at this beach, which is known as the Gap.

The road from the village ends at this beach, which is known as the Gap.

Saint Andrew`s Church, at the north of the village and on the Causeway, was reported in 1636 to be `much ruinated`, and major repairs were necessary.

Llanover is the village where Augusta Waddington, Lady Llanover, made it her mission to revive Welsh language and culture.

The local church here contains the graves of two Englishmen - both remembered for entirely different reasons.

Maiden Newton stands on the high road between Dorchester and Crewkerne, probably on a very old route between Dorset and Somerset.

Luton developed rapidly in the late 1950s and gathered many of the outlying villages into an expanded borough.

A scene that was once familiar in many villages up and down the country. Notice the petrol pump on the right.

Eype village is a quarter of a mile inland from the seashore, in a combe below the rolling Dorset downlands.

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

This prospect, photographed from Capstone Hill, shows the sheer density of housing created by the Victorians to cater for the influx of visitors every summer.

The 6th Duke of Devonshire supervised the design of Edensor (pronounced “Ensor”) in 1839 as a model estate village for his workers at nearby Chatsworth.

In the 1950s, most of Sidford's cottages were owned by villagers who worked locally. Today's residents are more likely to commute to Sidmouth or Exeter.

This small village is on the busy Diss to Thetford road. It has a number of attractive buildings of knapped flint - the garage is a prime example.

This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.

The pinnacled tower of Swanwick's parish church stands four-square at the end of Derby Road.

The Mill Bridge in the pretty hamlet of Alport crosses the River Bradford near its confluence with the Lathkill, three miles south of Bakewell.