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The green now boasts a locally crafted village sign, and no parking is allowed!

Perched among orchards on steep wooded slopes above the Fowey river, this picturesque village is renowned for cider making.

Chideock House on the left was, at this time, known as Myrtle Cottage, with a Mrs Bindloss as its inhabitant. Beyond are an obscured Bridge Cottage, By the Stream , and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

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.

Bourton-on-the-Water is probably the most popular tourist haunt in the Cotswolds. It deserves its popularity.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

An impromptu cricket match takes place on The Green at Aldbrough St John on a glorious summer's day.

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Here we see a corner in the old part of the fishing village, with a Victorian granite house added on the right. Flower pots are all around the upper bay window ledge.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

The local shop can be as important to the social life of a village community as the public house.

Originally a separate village, Lexden is now absorbed in Colchester's south-western expan- sion, but its identity is still clear with the church at its heart.

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive workshops

The end of an era for the railway: the coaches on the disused line would have made very large and comfortable holiday homes.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms. Nearby was an area of open heathland.

This leafy flint village is situated in the Cuckmere valley near Alfriston. Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex.

Old England can still be found in villages like these, and even today Westleton is a delight to explore, with church and green and very particular ducks on the pond.

The sprawling seaside bungalowdom of Camber - the holiday village, camp and caravan site with associated amuse- ment arcades that have grown from the glorious expanse of Camber sands, where the tide

The fine lines of Bisley Church show that this is another village that earned its wealth from the wool trade, its magnificent spire declaring to the neighbourhood the pride of its benefactors - the wool

In this photograph the bypass is deserted compared with today, and there are no traffic lights.

Ludham is a crossroads village set on higher ground between the rivers Thurne and Ant, both tributaries of the Bure. It is at the head of its own tributary channel to the Bure, Womack Water.

Jeremiah's Tea House (centre) used to be one of the favourite places to drive out to from Cambridge in the 1960s.

The cricket field is a focal point of village life, where summer upon summer old rivalries are played out.

Today the little village if Hockley has been absorbed by nearby Poynton.