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On two acres of Whin Common, to the north, the poor were once permitted to collect gorse bushes as firewood.

The mellow gritstone walls of the Peacock Hotel, on the A6 about four miles north of Matlock, are a landmark to visitors coming into the Peak District from the south.

Oving Road leads west uphill from the north end of the High Street - the architectural quality does not fall off.

North Street was mainly residential in the early 20th century, with some splendid houses, including thatched cottages.

This picture was taken eastwards from the north side of East Street, from Mrs Alice E Gale's musical instrument emporium and fancy repository on the corner with Barrack Street (left).

This view is from the Buckinghamshire bank, looking north from the A4 Bath Road immediately east of the bridge.

North Walsham has a long history as a weaving town producing a lightweight cloth; there were also foundries here manufacturing farming machinery and implements, which were sold all over the area from farming

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

The Square or old Market Place of Elham adjoins the church yard on the north side, and a weekly market was held here until the 18th century.

This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland which is just beginning to become built-up as the suburb of Harnham.

In the distance is the broad concrete bridge installed in 1927-28 carrying the four-lane by-pass south to Belmont and north towards London.

Many people visit the Black Boy Inn, which has expansive views northwards across the vale towards North Marston.

The market town of Bedale is a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

Judgement, the south porch of Lincoln Cathedral led into the richly carved Angel Choir, the east arm of the cathedral built for St Hugh's shrine; it was probably used by pilgrims, who would leave by the north

On the north side of St Paul's Square is the old corn exchange, an uncompromising Victorian building whose foundation stone was laid in October 1872.

Holy Trinity is in North Tidworth, the centre of the civilian area.

The nave, and the north aisle with its cat-slide roof, were restored in 1891, but are originally of the 15th century.

Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

William Ransom, born in 1826 in the house at the north end of Bancroft, studied at Isaac Brown's Quaker Academy at the Triangle, Hitchin.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

Tall yew hedges grow along the north and west paths, creating its distinctive look.

This was the original roadway into the village, now reduced in stature to a footpath, as the road now crosses the water to its north.