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This 204ft (63m) high obelisk on the south side of the main road was designed by Robert Smirke and believed to be the highest in the world at the time.

Here we see a closer view of the south porch, displaying carved figures of King Osric and Abbot Serlo on either side of the entrance.

We see the fairytale house and chapel built on the site of a Benedictine priory, with the south-east wing added by Piers St Aubyn in 1875-78. Landscaped gardens are among the rocks below.

This very austere hotel is seen in the year it was opened, out on the cliff top just south of Poldhu Cove.

Two walkers enjoy the country lanes of the South Hams in the days before the highway was dominated by motor cars.

Naburn is situated four miles south of York. In 1757 a weir and a lock were built to accommodate the river traffic.

Originally a separate village, Lexden is now absorbed in Colchester's south-western expan- sion, but its identity is still clear with the church at its heart.

Gillan Creek, just south of the mouth of the Helford River, is remote enough for smuggling to have been carried on here into the late 19th century, long after the crackdown in the aftermath of the Napoleonic

It shows how elevated the church is, facing countryside to the south but opening out onto the Market Place to the north.

Claimed to be the highest market town in England, Alston commands sweeping views of the North Pennines and the South Tyne Valley.

To the east of Margate, and south of Foreness Point, Kingsgate Bay is marked by this gap in the cliffs.

The station is to the right, on the old London and South Western Railway line from Waterloo to Exeter.

Looking down the steep Main Street of Robin Hood's Bay, across the pantiled roofs of the picturesque village to the sweeping curve of the bay and the headland of Old Peak or South Cheek in the background

On the south side of Coltishall the river Bure flows gently through water meadows where cattle and horses graze.

Many of the houses here are built of the familiar ironstone of the oolitic limestone belt, which stretches all the way from South Yorkshire to Dorset.

The Sheffield & South Yorkshire was established in 1895, and was created from a grouping of several much older waterways, including the Stainforth & Keady and the Sheffield canals.

The Sheffield & South Yorkshire was established in 1895, and was created from a grouping of several much older waterways, including the Stainforth & Keady and the Sheffield canals.

Back in the Market Place, the photographer looks south down the High Street. Cook's on the corner is still a newsagent and stationer, Goodnews.

On a clear day, we can savour an expansive view of the Weald from the South Downs overlooking Storrington.

The Queen's Head Hotel, now shops, used to stand just across Matlock Bridge (from where this photograph was taken) on the way south towards Derby.

This schooner may well have been unloading limestone, which was shipped from South Wales to be fired in the lime-kiln that still stands at the side of the beach.

Kidwelly lies due south of Carmarthen. The borough is one of the oldest in the principality; it received its first Charter under Henry VIII.

On the right here is the south range, which includes the parlour and great chamber. On the left is the east range, which contains the hall, marked by the splendid bay window.

St Andrew's Church sits on an unspoilt headland to the south-west of Clevedon. Buried here is Arthur Hallam (1811-1833), the son of historian Henry Hallam (1777-1859).