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This general view of Ambleside, at the northern end of Windermere, was taken from the slopes of Loughrigg Fell.

When this picture was taken in the Victorian era, Cowley was a large village gradually being swallowed up by the suburbs of Oxford.

This is the ancient arched bridge over the River Aire in the pretty Airedale village of Malham.

The pretty village of Calbourne lies among the downlands of the Isle of Wight. Its lovely Early English church boasts many fine monuments and is among the oldest on the island.

As a market town, Fakenham serves the needs of a wide area of villages and farms - as is suggested by the presence of the main national banks.

In the days when the English village was a thriving community, Yelvertoft benefited from two bakers, a butcher, a blacksmith, three inns and a grocer, whose premises can be seen on the left of the main

Not far distant from the Slaughters are the little villages of Lower and Upper Swell, both situated in an entrancing rural landscape along the banks of the River Dikler.

Henry Gibbs ran the post office, filling station and village store for many years.

The market place at Blandford held important sheep fairs until well into the 20th century, with the town council taking a toll on all sales.

Only a few miles away from the industry of Castleford, Ledsham village has remained an oasis of tranquillity.

Newport was founded by a group of beachmen or salvagers in 1841; nine of the founders were drowned attempting a salvage operation in the following year.

Modern buildings have crowded in along the northern part of Betchworth's long village street, but the line of the North Downs and the big chalk pit remain much the same, although the downs are far more

Behind The Old New Inn, a Mr Morris - helped by a few friends - built the famous model village in the 1930s.

A thicket of fishing craft take shelter within the tiny harbour of this quintessentially picturesque fishing village, a few miles west along the coast from Looe.

Though a fishing village since the 17th century, there was no harbour at Craster until the 20th century.

Henshall Hall once stood in what is now a suburb of Congleton, the former village of Mossley. The house has now completely gone, and the lands are occupied by a new and very pleasant housing estate.

Camborne grew rapidly from a modest village in the late 1700s into Cornwall's tin mining capital. Its plain buildings of dull brown stone reflect its workaday origins.

The miller looks out over the pool of this old Surrey watermill at Barford, an isolated part of Churt village.

The 17th century cross and village stocks. Local man Henry Daniels introduced fustian cutting to Lymm, having first gone to Manchester to learn the business.

An evocative picture of this attractive village some two miles north east of Wadhurst and now close to Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

Ickenham has retained a pleasant village atmosphere, despite some unfortunate modern building.

A delivery van waits outside a sturdy row of 18th-century cottages in the Swaledale village of Keld.

Tucked away among 'surroundings that are indescribably beautiful', boats nestle in the placid harbour waters of this picturesque village with its long, straggling street.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.