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The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860. Over the years it has lost one chimneystack.

At 42 acres, Great Bentley's village green is the largest in England. Its steam mill was built in 1886, and lasted until 1925, when the chimney was demolished.

It was only a mile away that George Fox, the Quaker, stood on the 'nick' of Pendle in 1652 and declared himself moved to start a religious order, the Society of Friends.

The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860. Over the years it has lost one chimneystack.

The river has always been important for Kendal, and powered many of the mills which wove the famous Kendal Green and other textiles from the Middle Ages onwards.

Oversley Green is just a short walk from Alcester, beside the River Arrow, near its confluence with the River Alne. This is the Arrow, and the old stone bridge over the river is just visible.

It is a fascinating 18th-century industrial settlement built on a ‘green field’ site at a point where ample water power was available.

John Heathcoat and John Boden had a factory in Mill Street (now Market Street) making lace by powered machinery. This mill became the focus of the lacemakers' pent up anger in 1816.

In Mill Lane is one of the Fylde's old windmills for grinding local corn. Like those at Kirkham, Wrea Green and Preesall, it is now a private residence.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Between Preston and Clitheroe lies Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley, backed by Longridge fells.

The major landmark is the windmill, a post mill dated 1665.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain. Here, next to the Ure, are mill cottages.

Its first house, Green Bank, is bigger than the rest and has a bay window, being built for a mill manager or the owner of the row.

This popular seaside town was built around a mill and an old village. The cliffs rise to about 70ft, and are the seaward end of the chalk ridge which stretches right across Norfolk.

variations in its name (Bakesalf, Beckhalgh) speak of a long history, and so do 15th-century Bashall Hall, home of the powerful Talbot family, and the old Red Pump coaching inn and the remains of a corn mill

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green. A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.

The pretty village of Thorp Arch with its green, Manor House and old mill leads down to the banks of the Wharfe, with the bridge (1772) carrying the road to Boston Spa.

The design incorporates both a cavalier and a roundhead standing on green turf, reminding us of Sir Edward Ford's activities nearby, whilst above them is the imperial Roman eagle (a reminder of

Another important aspect of this development is a new park, and this forms part of a wider vision to improve access to, and the environment of, the whole of the green wedge that runs through the

Saint Hill Green lies just outside East Grinstead. The Edwardian children in this picture pose for a group photograph at the road junction.