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The old village custom of placing the pub next to the church is not overlooked in Oxton. St Saviour's also supports a church-aided primary school, and both are a power in the community.

Six people lived in this two-bedroomed house; it belonged to David Lloyd George's uncle, the village shoemaker, who had offered his widowed mother a home.

This is the section which was dynamited in 1837 to open out the show-cave now so popular with visitors, who have to walk a mile up from the village to reach it.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

The tower was used as a pele tower by villagers, who hid there from marauding Scots.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

In the churchyard is the last resting place of James Hammett, the only Tolpuddle Martyr to return to live in his home village. The others eventually emigrated to Canada after being pardoned.

Several early 19th- century houses group around The Green, and in the mid l9th century the village was described as large.

In a not unattractive red brick, end-of-village group, it is impossible not to notice the Black Horse pub, with its well- mannered frontage and attractive pantiled roofs.

Once an old fishing village, it was developed in the mid 1700s as the earliest coastal and seabathing resort.

Spanning the narrow street of this hill-top village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, ancient gateway to the castle, which lies ruinous close by

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

Islip remains a small village, with mostly stone cottages and houses. This view looks through the 1903 lychgate towards the crocketted spire of the 15th-century parish church.

Stanwick is a village two miles south-west of Raunds. In 1960 Phipps was taken over by the giant Watney-Mann brewery, which retained the Phipps name but introduced the lettering shown here.

The village store in Holcombe Rogus is consigned to the history books, although a local garage now sells some of the items offered here.

The long bridge over the wide Usk river separates Crickhowell from the neighbouring village of Llangattock.

The shop is baker, grocer and draper; as it was probably the only shop in the vil- lage, it needed to carry a broad range of goods.

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.

Christ Church, Brockham was built in 1846 and sits proudly in the centre of the village.

The cottages beside the Nonconformist chapel - now the village's United Reformed Church - have hardly altered, but there is no trace of the cricket pitch, as the site is now covered with trees and bushes

The A29 that runs in a straight line through the village follows the course of the Roman Stane Street.

Taken across the road from the Wellington Inn, this view is looking south along the village.

Some ten years later than W164006 and W164004 (page 44), this photograph looks south along Wallasey Village with Leasowe Road going off to the right.

Houses were built near the station, and a recognisable village centre began to form, with a range of amenities.