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Uley Bury, from where this view was photographed, is acclaimed the most spectacular Iron Age hill- fort in the Cotswolds.

After the railway came to Mundesley in 1898, it was anticipated that the village would be as popular as Cromer.

This was the thatched lodge gate from the village street to the Hall. It dates from the 1840s, when Sir Henry Bunbury created the park around the Hall.

This early photograph of Castleton at the head of the Hope Valley shows the intricate network of drystone walls which surrounds the village.

Most cottages here were built in the century from 1750, and accommodated coal miners. Other trades here included spinning and weaving.

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

G E Street restored the church 1852-61. The building on the right may have been a tithe barn. Note that the village is well above flood level.

As the town grew further away from the village and the parish church, a new Anglican place of worship was necessary.

The Roman road of Stane Street bisects the village of Billingshurst. The shop of W J Barnes (on the left) stands on the causeway; it was formerly the old family shop of Joseph Luxford, a carrier.

The houses on Pennine View are from a different era to the ones we saw in D210004, and catering for more modern workers.

One of Cleveland's famous landmarks, the old church stands on the site of earlier Saxon and Norman churches.

Yetminster rather resembles one of those lovely stone built villages in the Cotswolds, and has an unusual look for a Dorset settlement.

The original church was Norman, but was removed to make way for a larger one built by the Knights Templars.

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.

A small village on minor roads near to the Surrey border.The church of St Mary Magdalene has two historic 14th-century brasses.

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.

This quiet village was once on the main route up Swaledale, and had a Temperance Hotel and a smithy. A new road bypassed the village, and it has reverted back to its secluded charms.

The River Arrow meanders over a wide flood plain and most villages in the area sit well above its banks. However Eardisland, for some reason, is situated right beside the river.

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

Godshill is one of the most photographed villages in England, with a wealth of fine thatched cottages.

This is something of a misnomer, as in reality there is no such village. The fact is that there are two villages, Hutton and Cranswick, which are less than a mile apart.

Heading south-west towards Banbury, we now reach Upper Boddington, close to the Warwickshire border.

Robertsbridge is a medieval village near the Kent border. There is no church in the village, the nearest being at Salehurst.

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.