Wootton, Bedfordshire

Wootton spent a few hundred years making bricks and church bells for other people's parishes, and now mostly makes commuters for Bedford and Milton Keynes. Its Ends and Greens grew into each other so thoroughly that an archaeologist once called them barely distinguishable, a verdict the residents of Bott End will contest and nobody driving through can disprove. Buyers arrive for a big village with an upper school on the doorstep, then spend the first year working out which End they live in.