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A mile or so north of Ampthill, we divert right to visit the ruins of Houghton House.

To the far left are the ivy-clad remains of Hillersden Hall, a Jacobean E-plan mansion with the church as the north wing.

In 1940, during war-time blackouts, the pier was hit again, very badly, by a ship ready to form a convoy to cross the North Atlantic.

Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industrialised by the late 18th century.

An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797.

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.

The house was given more Gothic trim in the early 19th century, and is now a residential home for the elderly.

To the north are the sandy heaths on the geological strata known as Bagshot Sands.

North of this east-west road, Little Bookham Street has some older buildings amid the suburbia and wide grassy verges.

Hendon was first recorded in the 10th century, but the Hendon we see in this photograph has very little in common with the original mediaeval centre about half a mile (as the crow flies) to the north.

Fleetwood was founded in 1836 by Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, and laid out to the designs of Decimus Burton, who designed the North Euston Hotel, Queen's Terrace and both lighthouses.

Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!

The small 7th-century church of St John the Evangelist is one of the finest examples of early Christian architecture in the North.

This view looks south-west along North End Road past the former pub, now a house.

Dinas Mawddwy is also infamous for the murder of one Lewis Owen, Baron of the Exchequer and Vice Chamberlain of North Wales.

In the background we can see the tall Pharos lighthouse and the North Euston Hotel, designed in 1840 by the famous architect Sir Decimus Burton.

The town`s main north-south thoroughfare was then largely residential with the only prominent shopfront being that of Turner`s Corn and Seed Stores (left), advertising Lipton`s Teas above the

St Mary's has been called 'the Cathedral of North Hampshire' and it is said that the arcaded walling around the sanctuary was inspired by Salisbury Cathedral.

The Norman church of St Giles is at the north end of the village.

It is cruciform, with a Norman nave, aisles and north transept.

Lechlade stone was used to build St Paul's Cathedral; it was brought from 10 miles north down to Taynton Quarry.

Lying in the tranquil Rye valley two miles west of Helmsley, Rievaulx was the first Cistercian monastery in the North of England.

Buxted Park is north-east of Uckfield; the medieval parish church, dedicated to St Margaret of Scotland, a rare dedication, sits in isolation in the park near the mansion, Buxted Place.