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The M5 motorway divides this village and its surrounding countryside from Cheltenham.

Clovelly is the original picture postcard village, clinging to a steep wooded valley prohibited to motor vehicles.

The 15th-century Queen's Arms is still the centre of village life.

Rose growers in these villages must have benefitted from passing horses if the state of this road is anything to go by!

We are closer to Bagshot village, and we see Higgs Lane to the left, and the High Street in the distance.

This straggling village has spent much of the last fifty years being dominated by a structure that proved to be as controversial - the Winfrith Atomic Energy Station.

Like other villages that are found along the course of the River Evenlode and its tributary streams, Ascott-under-Wychwood's function was milling.

Wychwood is an ancient deciduous forest in the North Cotswolds, and a string of picturesque villages take their names from it: Milton-under-Wychwood, Shipton-under-Wychwood and, glimpsed here as it was

Looking westwards along the village street from near the Loders Arms (far left) we can see the Farmers' Arms Inn (centre) and trees at Loders Court, behind Church Farm House (centre).

The style of its crocketed spire and castellated roof seems to belong more to the south Midlands than to this pleasant village two miles west of Alfreton.

There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it by

Canford bears all the hallmarks of the manorial village that it was, for most of the older houses are of a similar and approved pattern.

Mousehole (pronounced 'Mouzel') is an ancient village, the south pier having been first built in around 400 AD.

Gulval is still a separate village, even though it is only a mile outside Penzance.

The village developed into a holiday resort after the opening of the railway line from nearby Hull.

Despite becoming a suburb of Birmingham in the 20th century, it retains quite a village atmosphere.

This beautiful village is set up on a hilltop, surrounded by orchards and hopfields. St Mary's Church was founded in the 14th century, with its tower built in 1640.

Soon he will be hawking his wares in local villages, announcing his presence with a boisterous asthmatic roar, produced on a set of leathern bellows.

He will tour the local villages, travelling perhaps as far as Helston on the Lizard with his wares.

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

This prosperous watering-place was once an insignificant fishing village.

The old houses along this main street, some half-timbered, others of brick, or board or tile fronted, were mostly constructed during the 15th century when the village prospered in the profitable cloth

The red-brick village school with its bell-tower and half-tiled gables was built on the main road between Ashford and Royal Tunbridge Wells during the late 19th century, adjoining the churchyard of Holy

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