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Among the monuments on the north side of the chancel is a Purbeck marble tomb with canopy and three hanging arches on twisted columns marked by an 18in brass on the short tomb chest.

Tourists are ordering tickets for the twice-nightly end-of-the-pier show. Children are drinking from the outside fountain (right), and to top it all there is a horse-drawn ice cream cart.

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Forming a picturesque scene near Askham, the bridge arches over the River Lowther whose waters have their origin in the north-east Lakeland fells above Shap.

This small green is at the north end of the village - the Bull's Head pub stands on the left out of the picture.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

North Parade was one of these, but it was made much wider than the others to allow the local militia to use it as a parade ground.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

By the 1830s over thirty miles of canal had been constructed, which was used to transport 50,000 tons of sea sand a year from the north Cornwall coast for use as fertiliser on inland farms.

Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industrialised by the late 18th century.

A mile or so north of Ampthill, we divert right to visit the ruins of Houghton House.

To the far left are the ivy-clad remains of Hillersden Hall, a Jacobean E-plan mansion with the church as the north wing.

In 1940, during war-time blackouts, the pier was hit again, very badly, by a ship ready to form a convoy to cross the North Atlantic.

This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.

The house was given more Gothic trim in the early 19th century, and is now a residential home for the elderly. The Priory was founded by Fulk Peynel (or Pagnell) in the early 12th century.

An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797. This view looks south, away from the church.

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

Hendon was first recorded in the 10th century, but the Hendon we see in this photograph has very little in common with the original mediaeval centre about half a mile (as the crow flies) to the north.

The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

The not unlovely village of Saxelby is situated about a mile north of industrial Asfordby, and on a stream which empties into the River Wreake.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw over one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.