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Despite some modern buildings, Castle Morton is a village of great charm. Its ancient Common is still a good place for a wander as you admire the Malverns a few miles away.

The River Calder runs through the village; it was here that a mass baptism took place when Christianity first arrived in around 626-7 AD.

The village in which John Bunyan once lived has almost become a place of pilgrimage.

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

Sabden is unique in that it was almost an industrial village. It had six mills at one time, and yet it sits astride the old pack-horse trails in a green and remote area within Pendle's rim.

The Lilley Arms is the oldest public house in the village and dates from around 1705.

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

Listed by Edward Baines in his Gazetteer with the many villages of Blackburn Hundred, Downham is 3 miles north-east of Clitheroe.

The village was once celebrated for its mineral spa.

Completely overlooked by the towering limestone cliffs of Middleton Dale, the village church of Stoney Middleton is one of the few completely octagonal churches in England.

An ornamental Swiss Garden in Old Warden Park complements the Swiss styling that was built into the village by the third Lord Ongley in the 19th century. The Swiss Garden is open to the public.

Village public houses are still the heart of many communities around the New Forest - not only as places to go for refreshments, but as places to meet and socialise, and as venues for sports clubs.

The village of Streatley can be seen nestling between the Thames and the steep escarpment of the chalk downs, which are dotted with yews and junipers. The river is wide and shallow at this point.

Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England. The beautifully-thatched building measures only 20 ft by 10 ft; it is about 500 years old.

One of the two war memorial crosses in the village, this one stands at the corner of Broadway Lane.

This view looks into the village as you would see it if you were approaching from Kington.

These houses and shops were built on the old green when the railway cut through the village in c1850. Lloyds Bank occupies a house and shop combined (right), and next door is the Plough pub.

The steps up to the village pump were built so that water churns could be filled from a cart.

The village was rebuilt in brick after a disastrous fire; shops, chapels and the school all have slate roofs.

This small inn stands at the edge of the village on the main London route into Cambridge where it crosses the River Granta. The road on the right leads to the famous Gog Magog Hills.

A stroll from the town of Bridport is the large village of Bothenhampton, an airy community that catches the breezes of sea and downland.

The village of Wargrave has an Edwardian feel to it, but its origins date back many centuries. The Bull, seen on the left, was once a popular coaching inn, close to the busy Bath Road.

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard. The youngest to oldest inhabitants are represented here.

The Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence, where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.