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Milnthorpe had been an important stopping place for north or south- bound traffic since the 18th century, and there were numerous coaching inns along the main road.

Great Wakering is an attractive village, just a few miles to the north of Shoeburyness in the remote old marshlands of the south east of Essex.

A pleasure boat crowded to the gunwales chugs serenely up the river at Fulford, just south of York on the Ouse.

To the south is a new development with its own shopping centre. Stoke Park Wood lies to the east of Bishopstoke.

Methwold is one of several south-west Norfolk parishes noted for rabbit farming: there was an enormous warren here, covering 1,500 acres.

Thorne was an important inland port linking the South Yorkshire coalfield and the River Don with the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Humber via the Stainforth and Keadby Canal.

A modest train of the old London & South Western puffs into Calstock station, having crossed the slender viaduct that bridges the glittering waters of the Tamar.

A few miles south of Truro, Feock is picturesquely situated at the junction of the Carrick Roads with Restronguet Creek. Its Victorian church, St Feoca, has a detached tower.

The London and South Western Railway built their Exeter to Plymouth line to the north of Dartmoor through Okehampton.

This outstanding structure, which dates back to the beginning of the First World War and is a replica of its Venice namesake, connects the north and south quadrangles of Hertford College.

Much of the heavy industry had already moved to the Black Country, Lancashire, south Wales etc. Yet one can still sense the pall of smoke that lies over all of the buildings in the valley.

The sheer volume of boats in the South Bay is amazing. Most of them appear to be cobles, a traditional Yorkshire open boat easily identified by the square transom which has a reverse slope.

In this relatively unspoilt village the buildings are of various materials, including brick, flint, clunch (chalk) and sandstone, which reflects its location on the border between the South Downs and the

This Roman road runs from the mouth of the River Humber in the north-east of England to Devon in the south-west. So you could say that it has been on the tourist route for thousands of years.

Taxal is a small village south of Whaley Bridge, lying in a cul-de-sac overlooking the lovely Goyt Valley.

The Bude Canal, in which these schooners are moored, was built in 1823 to carry sand inland to improve farmland, but it ended up carrying all manner of cargoes including coal from South Wales.

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.

The Longmynd Hotel has a superb site half-way up the hill with wonderful views towards the south.

In 1920 a new roof was placed on the south aisle and the old lead recast for a total cost of £500.

Edgar Evans, who died with Scott at the South Pole, was born at Rhosili.

This view looks south along Wigan Road to the Anderton Arms, now managed as an Italian restaurant.

This is the extremely busy A15 main road heading north to Folkingham, Lincoln and eventually the Humber Bridge and south (the way we are facing) to Market Deeping and Peterborough.

It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

It was designed in the shape of a butterfly, so that the sitting rooms look south over the landscape. It received a Festival of Britain award.