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The local shop can be as important to the social life of a village community as the public house.

This archetypal fishing village was once entirely dependent on the mackerel shoals for its precarious economy.

Perched among orchards on steep wooded slopes above the Fowey river, this picturesque village is renowned for cider making.

The village is still celebrated on Easter Monday as the home of the Maids of Biddenden, Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, two Tudor Siamese twins joined at the shoulders and hips, who lived for thirty-four

At the beginning of the 19th Century Aberdare was a village within an agricultural district.

Originally a separate village, Lexden is now absorbed in Colchester's south-western expan- sion, but its identity is still clear with the church at its heart.

At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked there

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive workshops

Forced to sell for financial reasons, Tom and Dorothy Forster sold the village to Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, and their aunt's husband.

Above the entrance is a gallery, and it was from here that a parson, ejected from the church by the Commonwealth, used to preach to the villagers. The house later became a bank.

Nowadays there are modern holiday villages here with streamlined caravans, cottages and chalets all around this lovely area. Nearby there is now a large shire horse farm.

Contrast and compare this photograph with the 1950s images of Geddington, and you can see that the village has hardly changed at all in the intervening years.

The village of Rushton is mentioned as Riston or Risetone in the Domesday Book.

At the west end of the village there is a small green along the Badby Road.

This view shows R E Attwell's to the right, which was the village newsagent's and tobacconist's; the proprietor was Chairman of Minster Parish Council.

At the west end of the village, the antiques business is no more, but the building survives intact. It carries the plaque: 'Ye Olde Tolle House 1758'.

Today the little village if Hockley has been absorbed by nearby Poynton.

Here we see the pretty centre of Coggeshall, an attractive village now given over to the antiques trade. It was once a prosperous wool town, and famed for its lace.

They consist of possibly the oldest known Neolithic village in England, and are dated about 3700BC.

The lonely grandeur of the Snowdonia mountains is emphasised in stark monochrome in this lake set high above the village on the flank of the Conwy Valley.

Despite some garish mod- ern buildings and the large golf course nearby, Thurlestone remains the attractive village we see here in 1918.

In 1885 Solihull was described as a 'very pleasant village, but a few miles distant'.

The village is built round a green and a tarn, which is inhabited by wildlife. The former smithy still has a rural use – it is now occupied by agricultural engineers.

When the Flitch ceremony still took place in Little Dunmow, successful claimants were paraded through the village in the Flitch Chair.