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To reach our final village, Pilton, we must leave our straight route at East Pennard and travel almost due north for a couple of miles or so.

The City Art Gallery building was started in 1825 and completed in 1830 at a cost of £30,000.

During the 18th century, the roads Cherry Bounce, Chapel Street, Bell Road (now St Mary's Road), and George Street were all developing on the east side of the of the High Street and were in

Encouraged by the changing political scene at both national and local levels, especially after the extension of the vote in 1918 and the rise of the Labour Party, Carlisle council found itself

A scene of a typical village pub: quiet, unassuming and somewhat down-at-heel, but an essential part of the fabric of English rural life.

In the middle of the northern inner circle stands the Cove; it originally consisted of three stones, of which two now remain.

This unforgettable village cupped in a hollow with a large wayside pond is the home of All Saints' Church.

This unforgettable village cupped in a hollow with a large wayside pond is the home of All Saints' Church.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

This junction of two streets marks the site of the former market place, with the stolid red-brick White Lion, on the extreme right, and the King of Prussia pub along the road on the left, ready to slake

Here we see the ruins of the once luxurious state rooms of Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

This house was built by the three Medley brothers in c1750 in the grounds of Buxted Park, situated about two miles north of Uckfield.

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

Under the will of Archdeacon Pykenham, twelve almshouses were built in 1490 on either side of the earlier wayside chapel of St. Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Sienna.

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

The town owes its very existence to the building of the Ellesmere Canal (as it was then called) by Thomas Telford and William Jessop in the 1790s.

Both villages, which lie at the end of the Selsey peninsula, just a few miles from the historic cathedral city of Chichester, have long been associated with seaside holiday recreation.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Here we see the equestrian statue of George IV, who was Prince Regent at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

'The village of Big Budworth! You may travel England round, There is not such a village in the kingdom to be found.'

Romanby Green at Northallerton, a little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors, gives the impression of a village green.