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The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village. The Lychgate, c1520, is a half-timbered cottage by the churchyard with an upper floor extending above.

Until the 1840s Paignton was a farming village half a mile inland, producing cider and the then famous Paignton cabbage, but it became popular with convalescents and its beach - longer and better than

The tower looks down over the attractive village with its timber-framed cottages and Georgian houses.

Further south-east, the old village of Walton suffered greatly in the 1960s. The buildings on the left went to accommodate a dual-carriageway road widening.

South-east of the village, a lane crosses the county boundary with Bedfordshire along the upper reaches of the young River Ouzel.

Dressing and blessing the wells on Ascension Day is a colourful village affair: the schoolchildren process through the street carrying garlands, and the wells are decorated with spring flowers.

The village of Wyke Regis, now a suburb of Weymouth, north from Chamberlaine Road (foreground).

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Although there are many pleasant cottages in the vernacular brick and flint, the modest village street does not reflect Caister's illustrious history.

We are east of Bognor Regis.The poet William Blake lived in the village for four years.The medieval church of St Mary can be seen in the background of the picture.

Brookhouse is an ancient village north-east of Lancaster just above Caton. It is at a junction on the old Caton to Claughton road, which we can see going off to the left.

The village of Wyke Regis is now a suburb of Weymouth.

Notice that the lake is called Pick Mere, but the village that sits beside it is Pickmere.

The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey

Today, it is the river and the lime works which are the village's most valuable assets. The lime produced here is considered to be of the finest quality.

This church has the most impressive chantry in a Wiltshire village church, according to Derek Parker and John Chandler in Wiltshire Churches, an Illustrated History.

They were moved to this site around the village green just over a century later.

Many villagers left their homes here between 1830 and 1850 when the parish gave them money to go to Australia.

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

The No 14 bus chugs up Dee View Road from Heswall Village, passing the Dee View Inn on the right, which stands on the junctions of Dee View Road, The Mount and Dawstone Road.

Along with its neighbouring villages of Betteshanger and Tilmanstone, this settlement was a centre of the short-lived Kent coal industry, which began when coal was discovered when borings for a proposed

Gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Tunbridge Wells over the first half of the 20th century, this section of village shops and businesses along the main highway running between London and Eastbourne

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timber cottages that comprised this small village, originally called Clandon Abbots.

His birthday is also in the village calendar of events.