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Here we see Cranleigh's old village hall at Rowlands Corner, with its attendant shops. It is now the British Legion building, and a new 'village' hall has been built in the centre of town.

A rustic scene in the centre of the village, southwards along Duck Street, with the Swiss Cottage contributing its flamboyantly flowing thatch (left).

Local tradition says that a Spanish galleon was wrecked in the cove here during the 17th century, soon after the village had been depopulated by a plague.

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Sandsend is just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.

A rustic scene in the centre of the village, southwards along Duck Street, with the Swiss Cottage contributing its flamboyantly flowing thatch (left).

The parish church features a 12th-century nave and north aisle, and a 15th-century tower. The area around the chancel arch includes some stonework from the village's Saxon church.

A century has brought no great change to this view of the village, although it does look rather threadbare in this photograph by comparison with today's manicured look.

Even when this picture was taken, the hustle and bustle of St John's weekly market lingered on only in the memories of the village's more senior citizens; it had ceased in 1888.

These two photographs of the village High Street give some indication of the constantly-flowing stream of traffic which passes the small, half-timbered Black Horse pub with its adjacent wine merchant and

The White Hart on the left is the only pub left in the village. When the bicycle shop, just past the memorial (left), closed in the 1960s Frank Croach, the butcher, moved in.

The imposing pump stands at a cross roads in the village.

St Peter's Church, seen here from the churchyard and looking towards the village green, was rebuilt in 1718 on the site of an earlier church.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

We can just see the second Hunsdon public house, the Fox and Hounds, in the distance on the left, with houses in Tanner's Way (on the opposite side of the road) behind.

This view of Pangbourne shows the bridge over the River Pang, a tributary of the Thames.

A view of Staithes harbour showing, in the background, the two rows of houses known as Cowbar.

This stately home stands at the higher end of the village of More Crichel. An older building burnt down in 1742; the house we see here was erected soon afterwards by the Napier family.

The village of Cookham is synonymous with the colourful tradition of swan-upping, which dates from time immemorial and involves the swans being upped, or counted, classified and marked.

The white plastered cottages clustered around the tiny village green and its war memorial date from the 17th century onwards.

A few miles outside the market town of Liskeard, but away from main roads, the village has largely escaped modern developments.

The M20 now cuts directly across this picture, and new factory and housing developments fill the scene.

The small farming community of Colby is thought to have derived its name from Colli's farm, 'by' being a Scandinavian word for a farm or homestead.

The Village 1913. Charminster stands across the valley of the River Frome from Dorchester. It has grown considerably since this picture was taken.