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The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Bowls has long been a popular game in Lancashire, and there is considerable rivalry between the many clubs of its towns, villages and pubs.

Britford is a tiny village just outside Salisbury to the south east.

Now a truly lovely private home, this would have been an extremely grand post office for such a remote village.

In the early 20th century, when Beoley was still completely rural, The Village Inn used to be a popular destination for people venturing out of town by horse-drawn carriage or by bicycle.

Home to Kentish cider and several vineyards, this village quite rightly had a thriving wine merchant's, left. Is the man outside deciding whether to opt for a bottle of spirits or local brew?

Taken from Station Approach, looking towards the village centre, this view is much the same today.

The village is famous for being the centre of the worsted cloth trade. The manufacture of this material started in the 13th century and finished 600 years later.

The mill had a bakery supplying bread for the whole village, which was displayed in baskets and delivered by horse and cart.

The village surrounds a large green and common and this view looks across the pond towards the bellcote of the 1870s primary school.

Beth Chatto's well-known garden can be found on the edge of the village.

In the early 20th century, when Beoley was still completely rural, The Village Inn used to be a popular destination for people venturing out of town by horse-drawn carriage or by bicycle.

Crampton the printers and the Co-op face the cross that in 1919 became the village war memorial. It bears the names of those who died in two World Wars and the Korean War of 1950-51.

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

It has two large villas and a Methodist Chapel built by the well-known architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, most famous as the designer of the city of New Delhi.

Market Street c1955 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

Amberley church lies between the castle and the village at the western end of a ridge of high ground, which is about one mile north of Houghton Bridge.

Cawthorne is a village on the edge of the Pennines west of Barnsley on the Holmfirth road in the valley of the River Dearne.

Here we see the village post office and shop, which sells toys and gifts. A well-maintained semi-circular bed of roses has been planted on the forecourt - oh for a dash of colour!

Now it is all part of Salisbury, and the village is disappearing into the city.

In 1891, to the left beyond the cottages, a new cemetery for the village was opened on land that actually belonged to Luccombe parish.

Hare Street is the name of a village. The two cinema posters on the left are for the Gaumont, which was previously the Plaza, and the Odeon, which was the Havana, neither survives.

The village name, incidentally, is pronounced as 'Punnel'.

Many villagers sought out the cool of the local school (centre) or the medieval church, which sits a mile from the common.