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South Ockendon's smock mill - seen here across the moat of a long-vanished hall - was built c1829. It may have stood on the site of an ancient watermill.

One powerful Norman lord in South Yorkshire was Roger de Bully. His estates included North Anston, Greasbrough, Wickersley, Ecclesfield, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.

Besides being a market centre and wool town, Fairford was on an important coaching route in the days of horse-drawn travel, as it straddled the road from London to the south-west.

This unusual view is taken through the east window of the south aisle, with the chancel to the right.

Horbury, three miles south-west of Wakefield, was once one of the busiest railway junctions in the country; hence, perhaps, the absence of any form of traffic in the High Street in this photograph.

Immediately south of her All Saints Hospital, the Reverend Mother Harriet built this imposing convalescent home, also in the Victorian Gothic style.

South of the bypass are late 19th- and 20th-century housing and a large industrial area leading down to Eling creek. Nearby is the brick church of St Winifred, built in 1937.

This view looks south. On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

Who their opponents were on this occasion has long been forgotten, but it could have been a formidable foe, since the club was one of the most prestigious on the south coast.

This picture is taken from Bidston Hill looking south.

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

Two lads enjoy the view from the hillside above Newby Bridge, the small village at the southern end of Windermere, with the low south Lakeland hills in the background.

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.

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