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The Victorian commercial heart of this cul-de-sac village, strung out along the back lane into Melbury Park, was represented by the Melbury Osmond shop.

This is another extremely pretty little village in the heart of what was once Cheshire's cheese-producing countryside.

Today Marple Bridge is the most delightfully pretty little village.

Today Marple Bridge is the most delightfully pretty little village.

Small garages like this one were once a familiar sight in Britain's country towns and villages.

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

The Alkrington Garden Village now covers much of its former farmland.

This village got its name because it was once part of the endowment of Tavistock Abbey. Since the Reformation, the land hereabouts has been owned by the dukes of Bedford.

It is also interesting to recall that there was a prisoner of war camp in the village; it was in the grounds of Marbury Hall, which was demolished in the 1960s.

Another of Sussex's seaside villages, Rustington boasts a few flint-walled cottages and a medieval church.

Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.

Tree-lined, and with lush green river banks, the River Ribble runs through pretty villages and on to Clitheroe, joining with the River Calder and the River Hodder.

The little village of Polkerris is situated at the end of a sheltered valley on the east shore of St Austell Bay.

The church is to the west of the village, adjacent to the entrance to Wrentham Hall.

Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.

The village, about three miles north-west of Rye, lies on the Beckley to Rye road. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, hops were recorded as its main crop.

Although deserted when this picture was taken, this attractive village was populated enough to sustain two pubs, the George and Dragon, left, and the Chequers Inn beyond.

A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green. Hingham was responsible for providing New England with many settlers in the 17th century, where they founded another Hingham.

Between the High Street and the Beach village, where the fishing community lived, were 12 narrow alleys, known as Scores.

This Hampshire village has many trees, windy roads, and the occasional hill. Time has treated this peaceful area well. There are some fine cottages here, and no new housing.

Until well into the 20th century the nearby river would overflow the fields to the north of the village in a flood up to a mile wide.

Small garages like this one were once a familiar sight in Britain's country towns and villages.

The survival of so many timber buildings is a reminder that by the 17th and 18th centuries, the village's fortunes had declined.

The building on the extreme right was the village library when this photograph was taken, but it is now the Heritage Centre and Information Office.