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London architect George Edmund Street (1824-91, between 1874 and 1880, on a scale that equated with a cathedral when compared with the original St James' Church on the other side of the estate-owned village

Clifton upon Teme's name is rather misleading, for the village itself stands a considerable distance from that river.

Crays Hill has, in the past, been at the centre of various speculative transport schemes: there was once talk of an Islington-Wallasea railway passing this way, as well as plans to link the village to

Once referred to as 'the largest village in England', Wilmslow also became an industrial centre in the 18th century.

The village features in the story surrounding Wulfhere of Mercia and his two sons Ulfred and Rufin.The two claimed to be going hunting, but came instead to Eccleshall; here they were baptized by

Kirkpatrick's, like many a village garage, provided services once the domain of the wayside blacksmith – keeping conveyances in running order.

The houses shown here are part of the tiny village of Timbersbrook. The chimney belongs to the Silver Springs Dye works, established here because of the purity of the water.

The small village of Leeds is dominated by the presence of its large romantic castle. The castle is Norman, but there was an earlier Saxon castle on the site.

There has been much debate about the age and significance of these four giant stones a mile north of the village of Aylesford.

They face onto the road leading to Wareside village centre. The van (right) is driving down Fanhams' Hall Lane from Ware, and may be about to turn left past Appleton Farm and Baker's End.

The small village around the church all but disappeared at the end of the 18th century, helping to maintain the privacy of Parham House.

Over the years, Three Bridges has been swallowed up by the expanding suburbs of Crawley, but originally it was a very small village.

The village shop is on the left and nearby workmen are repairing the road.

The villages in this area are situated on the Magnesian limestone hills, which are typical of the east Durham countryside between Hartlepool and South Shields.

This view, taken on the northern edge of the village, is almost unrecognisable, for extensive changes have taken place. Lydford is a place of great antiquity.

Although it is the church serving the parish of Hooton, St Paul's Church sits much closer to the nearby village of Little Sutton.

A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge is on the outskirts.The town is packed with mills and machinery works.

Glencoe village stands on the shores of Loch Leven. Here we see a row of classic stone-built thatched cottages, in the characteristic vernacular style.

Until the early 19th century, Dunoon was little more than a modest village clustered around its castle.

Stanmore, a once picturesque village, has now lost much of its character, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

A tourist not infrequently takes considerable trouble to find out some charming seaside village in which he may dream out his few brief weeks of leisure in ineffable content and rest, soothed by the ever-present

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

Now a crowded suburb of Folkestone, this once rural village on the heights of the Downs just behind Sandgate has been transformed by the construction and rail links accompanying the building of

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.