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Just inland from Scarborough, along the Forge Valley, lies the peaceful village of Hackness.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

One Sunday in 1945 a tremendous explosion rocked the village, and a ball of flames erupted from behind the trees on Warwick Road.

Whilst this 1955ft-high mountain can be climbed from Abergavenny, many of the paths that lead from its summit descend to scat- tered villages in remote valleys like the Grwyne Fawr and Grwyne

Thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained fenland left.

Certainly, many of the houses in the village are thatched, and are constructed in the same way as the house in the foreground.

With the Mumbles Railway carrying as many as 40,000 passengers on a bank holiday, the village prospered. The name 'Mumbles' actually derives from the French 'mamelles', meaning 'breasts'.

Seen here from the south, across the bank of the small stream which flows through the village, the pale sandstone outline of St George's Church stands proudly in its churchyard.

This is at the end of the village, where a track leads down to a passenger ferry across the Gannel to the Pentire district of Newquay.

Various other 19th- century buildings survive, but the ambitious scheme never reached fruition and Alverstoke, once a small village on the Haslar Creek, was eventually swallowed up by Gosport.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

Strete stands on the winding lanes which form the highway between Dartmouth and the villages clustered around the great freshwater lake of Slapton Ley.

Situated eleven miles north of Bridlington, Filey was for many years a working fishing village, but became a popular place in the 1890s for those seeking a quiet holiday.

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.

The village sits on high ground, and unlike much of the parish which sits on more marshy land, is protected from flooding by embankments. It is now much industrialised.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green. Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

A surviving glimpse of rural Borehamwood before the rash of new building swamped these remnants of village life.

The town is a startling example of how things changed during the 19th century: little more than a fishing village before the tourists arrived, it had a population of 10,000 by 1901.

We are in the centre of the village; this view looks north along Church Street with the churchyard wall on the left.

The whole village is similarly picturesque, although the church is medieval.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.

The village is not a great deal larger than is indicated in the picture. The majority of the buildings are in whole or part 17th-century in origin.

Percival's Swaledale Motor Services run buses (left) between Richmond and the Swaledale villages. The few people with motor cars park them at will.

Cheltenham's famous racecourse is named Prestbury Park after the village that is situated at its outskirts. Prestbury was home to Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey of his age.