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The A465 road on its way westwards from Abergavenny links several South Wales valleys. The stretch from Abergavenny to Ebbw Vale rises at its highest point to 1350ft.

The south aisle with its square-headed windows was rebuilt in 1887 by a bequest of William King.

Northleach stands on the road from South Wales to London; it became an important coaching town, where inns such as the half-timbered Kings Head we see here provided shelter and accommodation to travellers

We are looking south-westwards from the River Winniford.

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

Strictly speaking, Arrowe Park Hotel is in Woodchurch to the south of Upton. Possibly the only change since the 1950s is its clientele - visually it is much the same.

This was restored in 1875 and faced with beach pebbles, and a curious vestry was added to the south side. Internally the beams that supported the rood screen can still be seen.

The Wish Tower, in the distance on the left, was built as a Martello Tower, one of over one hundred round-tow- ered fortlets built along the south coast during the Napoleonic Wars.

Although only a few miles from Plymouth to the south and Tavistock to the north, Bere Alston feels quite remote, situated on the peninsula between the Tamar and Tavy.

The South Marine Lake opened in 1887, the North Lake in 1892.

Until the Dissolution members of the family were interred at Burscough Priory; then Edward, the 3rd Earl, had a vault built at the south-east end of Ormskirk church.

Clay has been mined commercially in South Devon since the 17th Century.

This is a more modern part of town, off the A6 to the south. The stone-faced houses are well in keeping with the rest of Bakewell.

Continuing north-west towards Felbridge from the Moat Road junction we see the Italianate Church of Our Lady and St Peter, looking south east.

During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American troops, who would practise landings

Linthorpe Road was at one time the town's only road south.

It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side. Within, a curious niche in the west wall may be the entry to an anchorite's cell of c1400.

This view looks south along King's Parade, with King's College Chapel and the beautifully pinnacled screen and gatehouse leading to Front Court on the right.

The chancel is Early English, but it was restored in 1849; this restoration stretched to the 13th-century south nave windows and the north aisle.

The Green Bank Hotel, on the south bank of the Penryn River, was built in 1785 to cash in on the trade brought to the town by the mail packets.

Cressing is an expanding village just to the south of Braintree. It has its own railway-station, formerly known as Bulford station.

Stretching away to the south is the Alde, passing the Martello Tower on its left; it runs adjacent to the shore for a further ten miles, a quite remarkable feat considering that the sometimes violent

For example, one of the locks at Latchford (in the south of Warrington) is 600 feet long and 65 feet wide.

An interesting view from the south bank of the Thames looking east, before Christchurch Meadows on the left were made into a riverside park, and, more significantly, before Reading Bridge was built