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In the early 20th century there were still many thatched cruck-built cottages, but now this is a village beloved by rich commuters. Its windmill has been restored by Dr J Ward.

The war memorial is centrally placed in the village alongside the winding street by the stream. The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

This post office was built in 1900 on land belonging to the Betchworth Park Estate, and was designed to deal with the business of three villages, Betchworth, Brockham and Buckland, including sorting and

Here we see an exceptionally pretty village green, lined on all sides with trees.

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraor- dinary design of the church.

The parish church of this re-modelled village dates back to Norman times and has a 13th-century font.

In the part-Norman parish church of this large and attractive village the great Isaac Newton was baptised.

Much of England's social history can be explored by examining the manorial structure of villages such as Melcombe Bingham.

When the first Earl of Dorchester purchased Milton Abbey in 1752, he had the entire village dismantled and rebuilt further away from his new home.

An evocative view of wide shaggy grass verges, children and deserted roads characterises this view of Forest Row, the Ashdown Forest village that grew up on the site of Royal hunting lodges.

In this quintessential village scene, we see the village bobby standing next to the red telephone box, with a café selling ice creams behind.

By the chapel is this village that the Gregs built for their workers.

As the motor car became the prime mode of transport after the war, every small village and town sought to capitalize on the additional, but highly seasonal, trade it brought.

The white building (right) was the village butcher's shop - joints of meat were hung from the trees; beyond it is the three-gabled Town House.

This village has three greens.

The Village c1955 Pevsner likened Hamble to a West Country fishing village, and he was right to make the comparison.

The fells sheltering this village, most of which lies at the foot of this steep main street, rise to 1,000ft. The rest of the village follows the high road above the River Ribble.

This lovely old picture of the village centre shows the Post Office and a Post Office van outside.

The village had a very tight-knit, private community. Sword dances, Morris dances and superstition were a village way of life until the end of the 19th century.

A mile or two to the west of Northampton, the village of Duston is steeped in history.

Originally clustered around the church to the south, the hamlet was destroyed by a fire in the 17th century and the Manor Inn, built in 1871, is the focus of the 'new' village.

Overlooking the main road through the village is the church of the Holy Trinity. It was built in the 1880s to replace an earlier church dedicated to St Mary.

Panfield is a small village with no real focal point. The Hall occasionally throws open its farmyard and barns to host the village fête.

The village can be reached from a number of directions, but each one is a minor road, and consequently it remains a quiet spot.