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The first links with the Raleigh family, from which the village now takes the second part of its name, came in 1346 when Peter de Raleghe owned certain manorial rights.

Families are leaving the beach and strolling to the roadway, which is a short distance from the village centre.

The New Inn is a welcome haven in the centre of the small village, with its own car park at the side allowing calling motorists to leave the narrow street.

Bournemouth, the Needles and the Isle of Wight as they went.The attraction of Studland is not only the splendid beach and picturesque coastal scenery, but also the wild heathland all around the village

The view is eastwards from the village green to a range of 18th-century thatched cottages (right).

The monastery was built in Woodchester, and part of it - the Church of Our Lady - can be seen in the village to this day. The rest, however, was demolished in 1970.

Once the village of Ebbisham, its popularity as a spa resort in the Restoration period, followed by its emergence as a racing centre in the following century, saved Epsom from decline.

Swanwick and neighbouring Bursledon, on the extreme left of the picture, are popular villages on the banks of the Hamble.

This well-preserved village, built around the old Wadworth Hall, lies just south of Doncaster.

The village was buzzing with excitement as crowds gathered to watch ironmaster John Wilkinson make a fool of himself.

This typical High Street view could be of any village in the north-east. This is the 1950s version of today's modern superstore, where you can buy everything from ice cream to petrol.

The lane down to Skinningrove village runs off at the bottom left-hand corner. On the skyline we can just see the overhead tramway carrying buckets of ironstone from one of the mines.

Not long after this photograph was taken, flats became popular, and today there are unsightly blocks of flats on the outskirts of this village.

Once a fishing village called Brighthelmstone, Brighton developed as a fashionable watering-place after Dr Richard Russell moved his practice here in 1754, to supervise his sea-water cures.

In 1873, this wonder of nature had a quarrymen's village at its entrance.

Some of the soldiers who were killed in the furious battle of 1644 are buried in the village churchyard.

John Sell Cotman, who founded the Norwich School of artists with Crome, was born in this riverside village in 1782.

Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight villages satirically described in a rhyme attributed to William Shakespeare and penned after a heavy drinking session.

This pretty village with its broad green is now popular with artists.

Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

The large size of this Charnwood commuter village is hardly reflected in such an idyllic scene as this, a curving roadway with modest houses leading directly to the west door of the 13th-century church

Predominantly 'black and white', this Severnside village is a gem of a place, with more than 40 Grade II Listed Buildings. The King's Arms, on the right in this picture, is one of them.

New houses have sprung up in the village, and older properties have been restored; yet it remains a very pleasant community. The parish of Boddington is recorded in the Domesday Book as Botendon.