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This is St Mary's parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east.

Looking northwards we see hostelries, public houses and stores straddle the streets, highlighting Penrith's importance as a thoroughfare on the London to Carlisle and North East to North

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.

From 1862 North Wall was the Dublin terminus for London & North Western Railway steamers from Holyhead.

On the north bank, Embankment Gardens were laid out in the late 1880s with wide tree-lined walks along the river bank.

The south bank always remained less formal than the north; it is a series of islands separated from the 'mainland' by a back river, which in its turn is separated by weirs from the north river.

Here the photographer looks north-west along the east bank wharves towards the site of the swing bridge that opened in 1908, five years after this view and now rebuilt in its turn as well as superseded

Here the photographer looks north-west along the east bank wharves towards the site of the swing bridge that opened in 1908, five years after this view and now rebuilt in its turn as well as superseded

Moving south we cross the River Ivel by the Girtford Bridge to reach the town of Sandy on the Great North Road, the A1.

Nash's great early 19th century urban scheme, his 'Royal Mile', led north to terminate in Regents Park.

Kits Coty House, a prehistoric burial monument, is sited on a crest of the North Downs a mile or two to the north of Aylesford village.

To the north lies the Kettleness, or rather what is left of it. During a violent storm in 1829, the cliff fell into the sea taking most of Kettleness with it.

Stone, slate and lime would be carried from the north, and Wigan coal from the south.

Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

Originally a village of scattered houses beside a long rectangular Green with a triangular north end, it spawned a commuter village in the 1930s based around Croxley Station.

On the north side of the north chapel is a tomb in memory of Richard Strode (died 1464); this bears an unusual representation of the Holy Trinity, showing God holding a crucifix between his knees and

Mansfield lies some 14 miles north of Nottingham and to the west of Sherwood Forest.

North of the old town, isolated farmhouses and cottages were engulfed in Victorian expansion.

Going north to the Godstone to Reigate road, that part of the A25 that runs along the greensand ridge south of the North Downs, we reach the village of Bletchingley.

We are looking north on the approach from High Barnet Underground Station. The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

At intervals on Severn Side, both north and south, steps leading from the sandstone quays were constructed.

To the north lies the Kettleness, or rather what is left of it. During a violent storm in 1829, the cliff fell into the sea taking most of Kettleness with it.

By the end of the 18th century, the Severn north of Bewdley was becoming increasingly difficult to keep open for navigation, and groups of men had to be employed to bow-haul craft between Bewdley and Coalbrookdale

Fishing was a vital local industry in this remote north-eastern port, and in 1914 there were still more than 200 boats registered here.