Finchingfield, Suffolk, England (0422)

Phincingfelda
Fifty-four miles north of London this classic view of Finchingfield village - the green, the pond, the stream, the cottages - is as it more or less appears in numerous Essex calendars. In the 11th century, William the Conqueror gave the village, then called Phincingfelda, to a Knight, Roger Bigod, a companion of his in the Norman Invasion of England. In the foreground the War Memorial commemorates the 27 men of the Parish who died in the first world war and six who died in the second. On the hill sits the church of St John the Baptist, dating from the 14th century, and down the road by the pond is The Fox pub.