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Two traditional occupations - straw plaiting and watercress cultivation - provided an income for the inhabitants.

Sited beside the main north road, the pub has always been a busy place, with the canal and, later, the railway also bringing their trade.

We are on the southern slope of the Downs, north of Chichester.

This quiet village is tucked away in the Essex lanes about four miles north of Brentwood.

The River Nidd in the valley bottom disappears below ground into the potholes of Manchester Pot and Goydon Pot two miles north of Lofthouse, where it meets the Carboniferous limestone strata, reappearing

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes wind down to the North Sea.

North Pier and the Tower were great successes.

Wharves and warehouses were built alongside the river to accommodate the trade in cheeses from all parts of Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire.

Local records indicate that the first village school was held in the north transept of the church until an official site was chosen.

The tower has buttresses banded with light courses of limestone and darker courses of ironstone; inside there is an interesting spiral stair to the north chapel.

Looking north from New Bond Street, this late 19th-century view captures well the quality of Milsom Street, one of the earlier streets laid out beyond the boundaries of the original walled town.

The north side of George Street is raised above the roadway; at the left is part of Edgar Buildings, completed in 1762, whose centrally-pedimented houses close the vista up Milsom Street.

The village was an important staging point on the Great North Road.

Warnham parish lies mainly on Wealden clay about 2 miles north-west of Horsham.

In the four years since the previous picture was taken some redevelopment of the north side of the street has taken place, though there was more to come.

This fine chapel in Barn Street was erected in 1846 and enlarged in 1862 during the period when the town was experiencing the effects of the mining boom around Caradon just to the north

Two schooners are moored at the North Quay alongside John Hawken's coal store.

In 1839 Christ Church was opened to cater for the spiritual needs of the expanding suburb of shoe workers to the north of the town.

This view looks north along the High Street.

The North and West gates were demolished in 1832 and 1812 respectively.

To the north-east of Masham and three miles south of Bedale, Snape Castle was once the home of Katherine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry VIII.

The cobble-edged wide Market Place of Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, is still the setting for a market every Wednesday, just as it has been since medieval times.

These are Soulbury Three Locks on the Grand Union Canal north of Leighton Buzzard.

The church of St Lawrence is superbly positioned on the brow of a narrow spur offering splendid views to the north of the Greensand Hills.