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On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.The village church of St James was remarkable for its time in that it was built all at once, and not over a couple

This intriguing historical fishing village lies between two prominent headlands, Penny Nab and Cowbar Nab. Walk around Staithes, and the past is along every alleyway.

The limestone village of Conistone in Wharfedale is more correctly known as Conistone-with-Kilnsey, with its twin hamlet sheltering under the impressive overhang of Kilnsey Crag across the river.

Immediately south- west of the village and approached via Church Street is Langold Country Park, dominated by a fine lake.

In 1902 the railway came to the village, with the opening of a line to Skipton. At 42 acres, Great Bentley's village green is the largest in England.

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

This view encompasses the whole village looking across the extensive salt marshes, which are a haven for birds of every description, especially wild-fowl and migrating birds.

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby. Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

Set a short distance away from the Cromer to Norwich road, Aldborough offers a spacious prospect with cottages grouped round a broad green.

Wootton Courtenay's stores, now a villagers' co-operative, lies opposite the one in this picture - at the end of the middle block on the left.

A classic view of a quiet Essex village, taken in high summer in the 1950s. The village stands above the estuary of the River Crouch, about three miles north west of Burnham-on-Crouch.

This village is less well known than the prodigious Grand Junction Canal tunnel that emerges just to the south.

The attractive stone built village stands on high undulating ground some four miles north-east of Oakham.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

This attractive village at the lower end of the Vale of the Otter was the birthplace in 1552 of Sir Walter Raleigh.

This attractive village at the lower end of the Vale of the Otter was the birthplace in 1552 of Sir Walter Raleigh.

The Dam is still the popular name for Clowne's reservoir at Harlesthorpe, north of the former coal-mining village.

Although bearing a date of 1682, this packhorse bridge across the River Yarrow was constructed in 1671.

This is where the road between Knutsford and Macclesfield crosses the one from Alderley Edge village to Holmes Chapel.

Croxley Green lies east of the River Chess, separated from Rickmansworth by the open space of Rickmansworth Park and Croxley Hall's woods.

This area was connected with the iron industry.The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important