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A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

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.

This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

The north and south wings housed poor women, whilst the central area was a charitable boarding school, later becoming fee-paying.

When the castle was begun, the border between that part of England firmly under Norman control and those still willing to put up a fight lay just a few miles to the north.

The effects of the naval blockade by the North on Confederate ports caused severe distress and hardship amongst British mill workers.

Situated in the north-west Cotswolds, Hailes Abbey was founded in 1246.

St Peter's is a building of some antiquity, and this view of the rear of the parish church does not do justice to its clarity of line or the aesthetic appeal of its architecture.

This view looks along the north side of Market Square past the war memorial into Cambridge Street on the left of the Round House and the High Street to its right.

Continuing north-east along Portsmouth Road we reach Godalming, a market town since 1300, its centre now by-passed.

This view, looking north towards the entrance (in the Alton Road), shows several cottages built of chalk, some of which have since been demolished.

The parish of Abbots Ripton lies a few miles north of Huntingdon.

This village is in the Ouse valley just north of the town of Newhaven.

The view looks north-eastwards from the Ilchester Arms Hotel across to a flagpole and railings (left) in front of 19th-century Abbotsbury School, which was built for the village by the Earl of Ilchester

The Esplanade had semi-detached villas and Bath-style terraces for the upper and middle classes, designed by John Thomas.

For this view Frith's photographer swung his camera north-east from view 40540 of the church looking across the water meadows.

We go north again to the centre of the National Park and the best-known town in Powys.

This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds.

There is a Charles I letter over the north door.

Closer in, you can look down on Weston Bay and Weston-super-Mare to the north: it is probably better not to look too closely at the holiday sprawl along the road back to Burnham-on-Sea.

At the north end of the village is a tall oblong keep set in a neat moat with massive towers at each angle, which was licensed in 1373 for John de la Mare, Sheriff of Somerset.

This picture looks westwards down the north side of West Street, with its lollipop limes, from the Post Office to Victoria Grove (right of centre).

Heading south towards Bourne, the route diverts north-east of the town to Edenham, a delightful village on the east bank of the winding East Glen River, whose church has many remarkable monuments to the