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The village of Brockenhurst lies in one of the most attractive parts of the New Forest, and many of its cottages are of considerable antiquity.

Looking towards Barnstaple, the village shop is still in business, albeit not selling Dominion Petrol any longer. Neither are the milk churns collected each day.

The village is, indeed, enclosed by a circular, pre-Roman ditch. In the 12th century a castle-keep was added, built on a central mount (hence the Mount Stores on the left).

The photograph shows Charlwood Stores, whose sign reads 'T Watts, Grocer, Draper, Baker and Confectioner'.

The church, up a lane on the north side of the village, is a haven from the busy A38 which passes through between Saltash and Liskeard.

Church Stile is the name of the road which goes around the parish church.

With a 19th-century creeper-covered cottage providing residential quarters for the teacher, a schoolroom has been added to one side of the building to offer educational facilities to the young children

Standing on a Christian site with a thousand-year history, this is the third church to stand in the village.

Tucked between Crummock Water and Buttermere lake, the village is set in imposing Lakeland scenery.

Abbotsbury, situated at the western end of Chesil Beach, is most famous for its swannery, the waters of the Fleet often being turned white with hundreds of birds.

Cattle near the water suggest a hot summer's day in the village of Carrog. The fine stone bridge of 1661 has yet to experience the heavy traffic of more recent times.

Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.

The Ship was once famous for its quoits lawn. It hosted the annual Peachey Quoits Cup Championship - Mr Peachey was the owner of some nurseries in the village.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

This view illustrates the three main occupations of the people of Borth – seafaring, farming, and tending to the needs of holidaymakers.

The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white. Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop.

This stream is crossed by the major A47 in the distance, now controlled by traffic lights owing to the large volume of traffic.

Chigwell, situated on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that

The village bus is setting off for Looe outside the famous Punch Bowl Inn, which is said to have been used for the distribution of goods by smugglers.

Lying about ten miles east of Hawes, Aysgarth is famous for a series of waterfalls on the River Ure, the upper of which can still be viewed from a 16th-century single-arch bridge.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

The war memorial stands at the central crossroads of Ormesby St Margaret. The fencing behind has now been removed, and an open, grassy area gives the village a heart.

Two little girls walk arm-in-arm across the tree-shaded ancient packhorse bridge which crosses Clapham Beck in the centre of the village.

In the manor of Little Askrigg we find this road junction - if we go right, we reach Carperby (4 miles) and Leyburn (12 miles). Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery.