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The view looks along the lane towards a 19th-century school and to the left, down Vicarage Fold, stands the village pub.

In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns. William Cobbett described Botley as 'the most delightful village in the world.'

In the days before almost everyone owned a car, quiet villages situated miles from the nearest town needed village shops able to supply all the essentials.

The Village 1923 Freshwater gets its name from the supply of pure clean water rising so near to the sea.

The village is set solidly in the heart of market gardening country, and Stotfold's name is a carry forward of the Old English title for a pigpen.

Another fishing village, Polkerris had one of the largest fish cellars in Cornwall, so big that it was known as a fish palace.

This was the village school, built in 1881 by John Sheppard. George Ewart Evans came to live in Blaxhall in 1948, when his wife became headmistress.

This is something of a misnomer, as in reality there is no such village. The fact is that there are two villages, Hutton and Cranswick, which are less than a mile apart.

This is the first village in Rutland when approaching from the flood plain of the River Welland. The River Eye flows below the bridge seen here, which was once much narrower.

It is seventy years before filming took place in the village for the James Herriot TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small'.

Cudworth was never a pit village, although it is surrounded by collieries at Monk Bretton (opened in 1870), Carlton (1879), Grimethorpe (1897), Frickley (1905) and Ferrymoor (1917).

This is a tiny village with a big history. Copper mining in the 18th century brought an influx of workers into this quiet spot just to the east of Scotch Corner on the Roman Watling Street.

Looking east from the western end of the village, we can see the road junction beside what has become a single Burwell Cottage (centre). Rectory Lane used to be called Duck Street.

Originally a village of scattered houses beside a long rectangular Green with a triangular north end, it spawned a commuter village in the 1930s based around Croxley Station.

A small medieval village with its almshouses of 1847 and school of 1819, it played an important part in the production of the original Red Leicester cheese.

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby. Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

This village is less well known than the prodigious Grand Junction Canal tunnel that emerges just to the south.

The attractive stone built village stands on high undulating ground some four miles north-east of Oakham.

This area was connected with the iron industry.The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important

At the east end of the village, the village green has the war memorial at its centre.

The area near the village green is still the centre for visitors. There are cafes, souvenir shops and workshops for the famous serpentine stone which became popular in Victorian times.

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.