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The fishing village of Runswick Bay is set on a sheer cliff. It is also one of the most attractive harbourless villages along the Yorkshire coast.

The village nonconformist chapel is prominent on the right of this photograph of Frizington, a large former coal mining village just inland from Whitehaven.

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

The Village C1955 The centre of Bishop's Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this photograph shows some of the country town's striking Georgian build- ings.

Here we see the mundane suburban face of the village, which has grown around a core of rather special later medieval houses and the Rothley Temple, built on Knights Templar land in c1315.

St Marwenna's church sits on a ridge of high ground on the edge of the village. It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. He wrote some of his best known poetry here.

The 15th-century tower of All Saints, the Anchor pub and the elevation of the bridge, which is medieval in origin with 19th-century additions, add up to a classic photograph of the entrance to the village

This is the seaside end of the road through the village.

Guyden's Bakery (left) is a long-time landmark of the village; the front is 19th-century, but the building behind dates from the 18th century.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water, and the village church is a charming medieval survival. It is wonderful that such places have survived so well into the modern age.

Here we see harvest home in the village of Netherbury. Perhaps the harvesters have retreated to the Star Inn, seen in the centre of this picture, after their hard day's work.

Horsted Keynes, situated on the western edge of the Ashdown Forest, has a green and an assortment of period houses and cottages.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813.

The wondrous sight of blossom continues to greet many a springtime visitor to this central part of the county, where orchards are a prime feature.

The post office and stores, seen here, closed in the early 1980s when it was converted into a dwelling house. An earlier post office had been located in the row of houses on the left.

The road through the village became one of the first turnpike roads in Oxfordshire.

A deserted seat stands invitingly under the spreading chestnut tree on the village green at Cropton, four miles from Pickering on the southern edge of the North York Moors.

The Black Swan Inn would have been a popular resting place for the cattle drovers who used the Bullock Road.

Thorney was part of the Duke of Bedford's estate, and played a focal part in the construction of the Bedford Levels in the 17th century.

The half-timbered frontage of the George and Dragon inn (on the left of the photograph) dates from 1515.

The view from Keeper's Cottage, left, leads us down the lane towards the Wombwell Arms, named after local landowner, Sir George Wombwell.

A number of the older houses here were originally inns, for Broadway lay on the London to Worcester coaching route.

At nearby Fishlake, the village church is noted for its late Norman doorway. At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.