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The Green is to the north of St Andrew's Church; around it are some of the village's more interesting houses.

Carlton Hall and the Tudor House both still dominate the village. The small building, centre, has been tidied up and is no longer adored with ivy.

The parish church of St Margaret is built from local brown cobbles. The tower has a fine spire divided by two decorative bands above the spire lights.

Here we see an exceptionally pretty village green, lined on all sides with trees.

For many years this was the area where Nottingham folk would stroll or row.

The red sandstone cliffs of East Devon break into the green and pastoral valley of the River Sid; Sidmouth lines the slopes of the gap.

On the green is the war memorial to the fallen of the First World War which was unveiled with due ceremony by Lord Leicester in the 1920s.

All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.

The green and the surrounding roads and houses may look a little different today, one hundred years after this photograph was taken, but one landmark remains reassuringly constant and permanent: Hawkley's

A view along St Stephen's Green North, showing hansom cabs and the famous Shelbourne Hotel when it was just thirty years old.

Newick is situated halfway between two great Christian centres of worship—Canterbury and Winchester—so the village was used as a resting-place for pilgrims.

Butt's Farmhouse on the green was a medieval open hall. In the 17th century a chimney stack was inserted into the hall, and a cross wing built to the left. The small brick extension was a shop.

The first village settlement was around a huge green beside the Car Dyke, a Roman ditch that connected Cambridge with Peterborough and the north.

Richmond, the capital of Swaledale, has been described as one of the most perfect market towns in England.

A view of Datchet High Street from The Green.

The village store faces the war memorial on the green, which appears to have been fenced off. Surely this was not protection from vandals!

The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.

In the 1900s these included a tobacconist's, a bank, and two butchers. It now houses the regimental museum of the Green Howards.

By 1921 the green fees at the Old Links, St Anne's were 2s 6d on weekdays and higher at weekends, whilst the Lytham & St Anne's club charged a fee of 5s for play on any day of the week.

A glimpse through the Castle Bow towards the Castle Green. This area was once the site of the Saxon Minster and burial ground. In recent centuries the green was used for livestock markets.

Although only visible from its sign in this picture, the Green Man is a magnificent timbered public house.

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

Near the green (now a public garden) are some interesting old buildings including the White Lion Inn, parts of which may date back to the 17th century.

The house facing the green was the Bedford's pied-a-terre from 1550-1910. The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.