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

Shortly after their construc- tion, the village's most famous son was born, William Dampier.

Little of the early village, which was once surrounded by large areas of open sheep pasture, has survived.

The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.

The village windmill sits proudly overlooking the street, while the licensee J Fread at the Prince Albert pub (right) offered 'good stabling' for drinkers' horses.

William Morris called Bibury the most beautiful village in England.

Once a small village, Wroxham has now grown large as a result of the number of people intent on a cruising holiday. Local businesses have flourished.

Situated on The Tye, the village green, by the fine parish church, it is an oak framed 'Wealden house' of about 1380, in which the projecting end bays and central open hall are under one continuous roof

This turn-of-the-century photograph captures the atmosphere and feel of the village at that time. Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

The building on the left became the village's Jubilee Hall in 1978. The boy is carrying oars – most intriguing! Behind him is the small church of St Agatha.

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.

In the 1950s the village was not dependent upon coal mining for its prosperity, as the quarrying of dolomite (magnesium limestone) was being undertaken in the area on a large scale.

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.

The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.

These villagers - probably a farm labourer and his family - existed in a world completely different from that of the members of the Golf Club that was founded less than a mile away in 1897.

Easterly storms can push the seas right up the shingle bank, eroding the road and threatening the village. During a storm in the winter of 1978-9, waves were breaking over the tops of the houses.

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.

One famous 18th century villager was Nicholas Sanderson. As a child Nicholas contracted smallpox which left him blind, yet he learnt to read by passing his fingers over gravestones in the churchyard.

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

old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed in 1927 on the A217, and carried Brighton-bound traffic away from Sutton's developing centre, skirting Cheam village

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

The village is on the Scandale Beck near Ravenstonedale on the northern flanks of the Howgill Fells, in an area rich in prehistory and mercifully bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen