An area of the city that preserves a traditional village atmosphere with a general store, a butcher's, a bakery, a deli and a post office.

Increasingly, though, the people living there aren't traditional village types at all.

Many community-owned shops are on sites where traditional village shops have failed - about 400 village shops close each year.

They are now urging the charity's three million members to support the defence of their traditional village life.

The heavy snowfall means the traditional village resorts, which are typically at lower altitudes than the purpose-built ski stations, will likely have snow cover and therefore be a viable option.

The house sits near the top of its site, hugging the village boundary.

The village boundary covers 18 km (6.8 mile).

Iron nails were also driven on the house's threshold or at the end of the street in the village boundary, that the funeral precession travels.

They take refuge in a makeshift camp somewhere outside the village boundary (the notional village boundary demarcated by magical spell) at night.

The school recently moved into new, larger premises, outside the village boundary.