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This quiet village is tucked away in the Essex lanes about four miles north of Brentwood.

This thatched cottage stands between Bouncers Lane and Blacksmith's Lane, and is one of many half-timbered buildings in the village.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

Purton was a small settlement to the west of Swindon.

Situated next to Penshurst Station, this village grew to accommodate visitors on their way to take goods to the town.

Blackboys is a small iron industry village. Its name is believed to have come from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the woods.

Stilton is a small village south of Peterborough, with a reputation from ages past for a cheese which it has never actually produced.

Villagers cut rushes growing by the River Wyre; rushes were made into rush lights or stored in readiness for the rush cart, which was led in procession twice a year for the strewing of fresh rushes in

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

The Helvars, who then owned nearby Coker Court, erected these almshouses in 1640. Shortly after their construc- tion, the village's most famous son was born, William Dampier.

St Martin's Church, with its wood-shingled spire, has a tower clock surrounded by a quotation from the poet Robert Browning - 'Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.'

Weather-boarded and glass shop fronts line this Edwardian street, which boasts a jeweller's, a draper's and silk mercer's named Stokes & Sons, and a trader by the name of J F Gammon.

Almost ruinous when acquired by the National Trust as its first building in 1896, the clergy house was carefully restored.

Whitchurch lies opposite Pangbourne, which is situated on the Berkshire bank. This turn-of-the-century photograph captures the atmosphere and feel of the village at that time.

This amazingly small- scale country lane is now not only surfaced and widened but installed with traffic-calming cushions to curb speed on the main Richmond-Darlington road.

The old flaming torch sign (left) marks the approach to the village school in Holmfirth Road, Meltham, another Pennine edge town founded on the textile industry.

Coxhoe straddles the A177 road between Durham and Sedgefield.

A little back from the shore in the older part of the village, we see a rural-looking scene along a dusty, unmetalled road.

We are close to the centre of the village. The Ship Inn can be seen on the left.

Looking at a tranquil summer scene like this, it is difficult to imagine the furious weather to which Torcross is sometimes exposed.

The village takes its name from the area's most famous son, Sir Walter Raleigh, who was born at the beautiful Tudor farmhouse of Hayes Barton a couple of miles to the south.

The view north up the village appears little changed today. To the left, Bartley`s is still selling flowers on the corner of Boxall Road.

The coming of the railway in 1884 prompted the tasteful residential development of this new part of the village of Oxted, overlooking the Weald.

A little further east from Mistley is the village of Bradfield.