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The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

Once many villages were clustered around the village pond, and this shot of Finningley in South Yorkshire shows it was no exception.

The commanding tower of the village parish church overlooks the quiet South Yorkshire village of Sprotbrough, now divorced from the neighbouring town of Doncaster by the busy A1M motorway.

This interesting picture of the village street and the post office shows the village postman about to mount his bicycle.

This small village, about three miles to the east of Loughborough, has in recent decades expanded to accommodate country- dwelling commuters.

In the village are Lady Lumley's Almshouses. In 1656 she also gave a bequest for a hospital and a grammar school to be built in the village.

Only a stone's throw from the historic settlement of Arundel, the village of Burpham is a gem of a place.

At about this time, Rutland villages began to acquire small housing estates, usually on the edges. At first they were council houses, and later private developers came in.

Here we see Washington village about ten years before the area was designated a New Town.

When the Anglo-Saxons settled in their village of 'Longetuna', meaning 'long village', it was cut off from the world by bogs and marshland.

Growth has seen Leicester all but engulf this large commuter village on the city's north-west outskirts. The small Co-op has given way to a superstore nearby.

This village lies around a green, and here the church of St Peter and St Paul can be found. At the first house on the right, a window beside the front door has been bricked up.

This village is at the very heart of so called 'witch country'.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

Hollands Wood is close to the village, and here there are pleasant ponds. There are attractive cottages in Brockenhurst, and some are thatched.

When this picture was taken there had been a Blue Bell inn in the village for over 140 years.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

Saltford's original village lies on a hillside tunnelled underneath by the Great Western Railway.

This view of the village was taken from St Bride's.

Several years after this photograph was taken, the East Berkshire village of Holyport became the setting for a First World War PoW camp and German soldiers were regularly seen marching through

A bridge over the River Hull made this village an important crossroads in medieval times - pleasure boats still tie up here.

This extremely attractive village lies in the heart of mountainous Snowdonia on the Glaslyn river, and this fine bridge has been a magnet for visitors, who came in increasing numbers following the war.

Brimington is one of a number of similar former coal mining villages to the east of Chesterfield, and today villages like this are seeking a new identity.

Some of the sandstone cottages in the village of Swainby are still known as the Miners' Cottages, remembering the village's brief spell as an iron mining centre during the 19th century.