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The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

The isolated village of Skinningrove lies behind the camera – it is a community used to hardships and exposed to fierce winter weather.

In 1885 Rowland Egerton Warburton of Arley built a new church in the village.

Beyond the cottages stands the village school, which served the community between 1881 and 1946.

On the right is the pound, or village lock-up, built of sandstone.

Corringham was a small, remote village before the coming of the oil-refineries: the petrol-station sign in the distance says it all. This parade was built in 1929.

The carriage road from Liskeard terminated at this tranquil village of brown stone cottages set by a creek swept by the tides.

On this bright summer's day, the car park in the heart of the village is packed full of cars.

By the time of Domesday Book, 'Bexelei' was recorded as a small village, which had scarcely recovered from the Norman invasion.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. Here he wrote some of his best known poetry.

A smart touring car is already causing congestion and interest while negotiating a narrow corner in the village.

It is some 50 years after photograph 59345 was taken, and we are looking up the lane with the village shop and the Falcon Inn on the left.

The duck pond on Writtle Green is still the jewel in this village's crown - though these days it has rails around it.

In the village church is the tomb of John de la Warre, whose family home was at nearby Hestercombe.

It is market day, and the bystanders are waiting for transport to carry them back to their villages.

This small village sits between the sea and fields of bright lavender. At Caley Mill there is a lavender water distillery, and in late summer the fields shimmer with a deep blue.

In the early decades of the 19th century the district of Saddleworth covered 35 square miles and included over 70 hamlets and villages.

By the time this picture was taken, Port Erin had been transformed from a fishing village into a popular resort.

The leafy Victorian estate village of Canford Magna was created by the Guest family of Canford House for their staff.

The village of Sea Palling was changed irrevocably by the east coast floods of 1953.

Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people.

This picture of the village is typical of rural Wales in the 1960s. A small number of houses still manages to support a pub and grocery store - this one is part of the Mace chain.

Cranborne and the villages round about were the residences of many local poachers until very recent times.

Between the 1600s and 1800s, the village played a vital role in the shipbuilding industry.