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Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King's School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school.

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

The small horse-drawn carts carried less active holiday-makers onto the sands, but could probably be hired as an alternative to a donkey ride.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

We are now on the north or Essex bank of the Thames Estuary. This rather quaint view shows the then 'up to the minute' toll booths of the newly-opened Dartford Tunnel.

Further along the north bank the Thames passes Chelsea's Cheyne Walk.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

We are in the centre of the village; this view looks north along Church Street with the churchyard wall on the left.

Linlithgow reached its final form during the reign of James V, though the north wing was reconstructed in the neo-classical style between 1618-1633.

Overlooking the Clyde to the north of the present town of Bothwell, the castle is still an impressive sight despite being a ruin.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.

This view is taken from the west, near the north-east corner of the Green, at the foot of Angel Hill. The fine west tower of All Saints dominates the scene.

The north face of the sturdy church tower bears an old clock, though it has been here for less than one hundred years.

War Memorial Gardens were laid out to the north of Memorial Avenue between it and the Canch, as this stretch of the River Ryton is known.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

Horsley is approached from the north by the main road from Nailsworth, middle right, and by a steep lane leading from the attractive hamlet of Washpool, bottom right, where the remains

The hill leads from the Bear Hotel down to the A46 and on to North Woodchester, visible in the distance.

Until well into the 20th century the nearby river would overflow the fields to the north of the village in a flood up to a mile wide.

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

This triangular piece of ground contains the old Bull Ring, and lies immediately north of the abbey gatehouse (out of picture, bottom left).

With the building of the railway in 1866, prosperous businessmen from Birkenhead and Liverpool moved to this part of the north Wirral coast.

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

The half-timbered 17th-century King's Arms, on the left, lays claim, along with The King's Head in neighbouring North Street, to be the original Marquis of Granby in Charles Dickens' comic novel The Pickwick

The Roman bridge can be found down a footpath near the post office, and Fairy Bridge is north of the Red Pump Inn.