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Many of these houses were originally built in the 1800s as housing for immigrants coming to the area from Cumbria and North Wales to work in the local quarries.

The village sits below the North Downs on the main road between Dorking and Reigate.

The elaborate north porch incorporates a chapel to the 14th-century peasant leader John Ball.

It was also intended that there should be a canal going from Ellesmere directly to the north to reach the sea at Ellesmere Port.

Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial

Looking north-east, this photograph shows a strangely deserted High Street. On the right is the junction with Station Road.

This was Winchelsea's north east gate and lay by the banks of the River Brede (hence the name). It dates from the early fourteenth century.

This view looks north up Haymarket towards Piccadilly Circus.

In the earlier one, looking north up High Street, The Greyhound Inn is still an 18th-century colourwashed building, while Burgis' shop on the left corner and the dor- mered cottages beyond are

The view is north-eastwards to the Jubilee Clock and Greenhill (centre right), with the Georgian frontages of Gloucester Row and Royal Crescent facing seawards (left).

Though shellfish are still gathered by some locals from the brackish sands to the north of Parkgate, the commercial trade ceased when the estuary finally silted up in the 1950s.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

During the 18th century, Blisworth was the venue for loading and unloading boats from London, the Midlands and the North.

Though the resort was away from the railway, holiday-makers could easily reach it by tram, either from Fleetwood or from North Station.

In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

Stramongate is the main approach road into Kendal from the north-east, and means 'the street of the straw men'. St George's Church is in the background.

Frampton, 'the settlement on the Frome', is an attractive downland village north-west of Dorchester. The old manor house of Frampton Court was demolished in 1939.

Magnificent sea views are afforded from the Promenade, down the north coast in the direction of Hartlepool and beyond, hence the name of these gardens.

This hotel is just beside the North Eastern Railway Station.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

We are facing north, towards Horndon's school. The houses nearest us were once commercial premises—a hardware store and a tailor's.

Many of the cottages lining Quay Street, which leads below North Hill to the harbour, belonged to fishermen who once sailed after herring.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.