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Their stage carriage service reached - and still does - some of the more remote villages in the area. The bank is now operated by The Royal Bank of Scotland.

West of the village centre is Wadhurst Castle.

An overview of Ludham from the tower of St Catherine's Church shows the well-wooded, rich agricultural land surrounding the village before many of the hedges had been removed.

Beyond is the village hall, a mid 19th century building, now with a concrete tiled roof. A modern stone house now fills the gap between the hall and the stone cottages.

The best of the old village is around the parish church, particularly in the quaintly named street, Hickmire.

The large village of Heckington has two great buildings, the mill and the church of St Andrew, which is most unusual in that it was totally built in the same architectural style, Decorated, in a very few

The park pale (enclosure) can still be seen by following the footpaths out of the village.

This view was taken from underneath the railway bridge looking down towards the Wharfe and the next village, Middleton.

Broadstairs, a well-known resort on the Isle of Thanet between Margate and Ramsgate, retains its village atmosphere.

Despite being an ancient settlement, Maltby was still little more than a village at the beginning of the 20th century. Then things changed.

It was a popular place to live in Victorian times, containing several 'gentlemen's seats and neat villas'.

We are in a large village at the foot of the Downs, which has several commons. The Premonstratensian monastery of Our Lady of England is still in use.

He had an extensive (and now extremely valuable) chained library of books, which he left to the villagers.

The pub is now called the Villagers. The Watney's barrel over the sign is a period piece: remember Watney's Red Barrel beer?

Over to the left is the Sudbury Union Workhouse, about which the Sudbury poet George Fulcher wrote in his 'Village Paupers'.

Great Bardfield is a village that bills itself as a town. Its 17th-century Town House, on the left, was once a sort of part-time guildhall.

The original village, however, was at the bottom of the hill, centred on the church of St Peter, with the estuary of the Dee beyond.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green.Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

This is not the only tribute to the fallen heroes; there is also a bronze statue by Jennie Delahunt of two soldiers sharing water, and round it there were cottages built for the returned heroes in a 'village

When this picture was taken, the motor car was a relatively new method of travelling up the hill to the village grocery store, A E Hammond (right).

Dominating the village is the 15th-century church of St Oswald's, its tower gifted by Robert Washington.

Cadnam is one of the best-known villages in the New Forest. Most people know it as being at the end of the M27 motorway where it joins the A31 - in a sense, it is the gateway to the forest.

The village pump was possibly introduced to improve water quality after the typhoid epidemics of the late 19th century. We can just see the bright water of the pond.

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.