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The façade is constructed in gault brick from Costessey, a village just outside Norwich.

The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along

Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

Many people ponder as to how this charming village got its name.

The area known as Churchgate Street lies close to Old Harlow, and has the air of a quiet village.

This view shows the fen edge linear pattern of the village; here William the Conqueror and Geoffrey de Manderville made their defensive stand for the island of Ely.

There had been a middle-class watering place attached to what was little more than a fishing village.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The picturesque village is situated on a minor east-west road, rising up from the reservoir past Sir James Pennethorne's hall, which took some twenty years to complete, the medieval parish church and

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

Mellor Brook is the nearest village of any size in this well-wooded area.

The furthest building is known today as The Cottage, but village people still remember it as Clements' Cottage.

It is seventy-five years on from view 18148, and the scene is little changed other than a slight realignment of the track in the foreground, which leads to the centre of the village of Newton

The village was at the private entrance to Bolton Castle, and would have provided this massive stronghold with goods and trades.

At its west end the village had a post office and stores. Now a house, it retainst the Victorian wall letterbox near the door, cleared four times a day in around 1900.

A community of Cokelers, a religious group otherwise known as the Dependents, once lived in the village.

Llanover is the village where Augusta Waddington, Lady Llanover, made it her mission to revive Welsh language and culture.

This is a quiet residential road in a village of fine buildings. The most impressive is probably Brasted Place, built by Robert?

This scene shows the delightful variety of sizes and styles of weatherboarded houses in the village. The Horse and Groom pub is now a private house.

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built many cottages for estate staff.

The village was named after the bridges crossing the River Mole. The picture shows a well-stocked corner shop dealing in general and fancy drapery, and acting also as a Postal Telegraph office.

The green was at the heart of the old village. The tower of the Norman church of St Cadfan stands in the centre. The church was restored and partly rebuilt in 1882.

The village was wealthy enough to support a theatre.

He had a flair for advertising and 'Player's Please' signs, such as the one affixed to the Post Office, were eventually to be seen in every village.