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Malton stands at the junction of many roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

The road south from Braemar climbs through Glen Clunie and then over the rugged Cairnwell Pass, the highest point on a main road in Britain, and now the main A93 between Aberdeenshire and Perthshire.

This photograph of the Biggin was taken from the south in 1903. The section immediately before the camera is now demolished; nonetheless, what remains is a fascinating building.

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive workshops

The bridge in the foreground is the main entrance to the house; the water is the Derwent, en route to its confluence with the Wye south of Rowsley.

Two walkers enjoy the country lanes of the South Hams in the days before the highway was dominated by motor cars.

This street, which was once the main road into Nottingham from the south and crowded with people and traffic, is now pedestrianised and the direct route between the city's two shopping centres.

Thatching in the South Hams was traditionally undertaken using reed from the shores of Slapton Ley, which was regarded as far superior to any other material.

In the foreground is a crumbling wall of the medieval Outer Ward, and on the headland behind is the monstrous hotel built by the London & South Western Railway Co at the end of the 19th

Situated to the south-east of Milford Church, Hurst Castle was probably built between 1539 and 1544 and comprises a twelve-sided central tower protected by a curtain wall and semi-circular bastion towers

Because the difficult alkaline downland soil yielded indifferent crops, for centuries the South Downs were vast sheepwalks; by the 18th century there were 400,000 ewes grazing between Eastbourne and Hampshire

The bridge in the picture is just south of Padstow.

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

Alongside the staithes is the South Eastern Gas Board's 'Brixton'; awaiting their turn are the 'Thomas Hardie' and the 'Flathouse'.

On the right is South Place, former home of members of the Harris family, which became the surgery of Dr Grant in 1947.

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 soldiers, who would practise troop

Some of the small boats here were almost certainly built at Lidstone's, whose South Town Yard started business in 1824.

Before efficient transport links were opened to Ilfracombe, steamers crossed the Severn estuary from South Wales, discharging hundreds of day-trippers into the town.

At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

While the harbour area is well known to tourists, the true village of Boscastle climbs a steep hill to the south, where it was by-passed in 1886.

We are looking south from Lower Gatesgarth. The pines of Crag Wood are prominent in the centre of the photograph, while the slopes of Dodd sweep up the lake shore beyond.

The north wing, which is jettied on a moulded wood bressumer, remains half-timbered; the south wing was rebuilt in the 19th century to house the parish hall.

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.