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Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

Horses have given way to the ubiquitous motor car, and the village is catering for the car-borne tourist.

The original heart of this sprawling village, the battlemented tower is the complete surviving remnant of the medieval church.

The characteristic square block of the fish cellars just above the two gigs in the picture betrays Gorran Haven's past as a fishing village.

The site, now occupied by the decorative village sign, is still referred to as George Corner.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

Eynsham has developed from a small agricultural village, and is now almost the size of a small town. We are looking along Acre End Street.

Just beyond the row of buildings on the right are the village stocks under the triangular wooden cover.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine. Notice the steep steps in the lower foreground, dropping away toward the sea.

The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.

St Anne's church, consecrated in 1833, was built on a slope above the village near the site of the old church of the same name which had been attached to St Germans Priory.

Conditions here were so bad during the Great Blizzard of 1891 that the local blacksmith and his apprentice had to dig their way to the local well and then dig back across the village to get water to relatives

Its successor, the present A51, now by-passes the village. The Lamb and Flag Hotel, on the left beside the car, was another old inn which catered for travellers.

The centre of the village, with its attractive houses round the green, is marked by a market cross reminding us that Henry III had granted a license to Thomas de Greystoke for a weekly market and fair

Byworth is a pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.

There are two old yew trees here, and in 2000, to mark the Millennium, numerous cuttings were taken and planted throughout the village.

Henry Treadwell was one of several generations of yeoman farmers in the village, and was the landlord of the inn during the second half of the 19th century.

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. There is chalk quarrying being carried out on the hillside on the left.

In the 14th century the nearby village of Malpas was under constant threat of attack from the Welsh, and there was an unsuccessful attempt to have the chapel on the Cholmondeley estate raised in status

Goring collected a number of late Victorian and Edwardian riverside houses and boathouses between the river and the village proper. The now tiled boathouse on the right is today a doctor's surgery.

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints. The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

Built in a narrow gully in cliffs 400 feet high, this was once a smuggling village.

The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.