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The ridgetop village of Bolsterstone stands at nearly 1,000 feet above the sea on the edge of the Peak District moors north-west of Sheffield.

This narrow road is still the main highway along the north Norfolk coast. The caravan site on the right is on top of the Runton cliffs.

We are looking north towards the church. On the right, we can see the carriage entrance of the Red Lion next to Carter's the jeweller's; further on is Barclays Bank, which was re-fronted in 1822.

The town has not spread to the north beyond this point for the last 500 years.

The Cobb is part of the isolated North Wall, and was built in the 14th

Ripon is the farthest north a barge can travel without being removed from the water. This short, 2-mile canal was opened in 1773, and is an extension of the River Ure.

Newark's position on the Great North Road and the River Trent attracted industry including flour milling, maltings, brewing, an iron works, leather working, and even a glue factory.

South Street is to the left, with the Golden Lion and North Street to the right.

Corve Street is the main road leading north to Shrewsbury. Notice the way that the road suddenly becomes that little bit wider.

Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Edward I was renowned for his military strong- holds, especially in North Wales.

On his retreat north in 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart held a council of war in Crieff at the Drummond Arms.

Another view of the Market Cross, this time looking north, shows its knobbly crockets to their best advantage. The cross at the top of the shaft was lost many years before.

This view looks north along Midland Road, its name deriving from the old railway station. The terraces and villas shown are all intact today.

This photograph shows the range of substantial brick-fronted Georgian houses at the north end.

This mighty copper mine scarred the slopes north of Gunnislake on the Devon side of the River Tamar. Here miners blasted the lodes in deep melancholy vaults.

It is hard to believe that the arched bridge, built in 1797 by John Carr of York, used to carry all the main Great North road traffic.

The journey took over thirty hours, and was an acceptable alternative to being shaken and bounced along the Great North Road in a mail-coach.

The white deposits on the granite boulders in the river bed are china clay, vast deposits of which have been worked on Lee Moor to the north since the 1840s.

This was once an important stopping place on the main road from Taunton to the north Devon area; now, a new road further south has removed much of the traffic from this place.

The weatherboarded Plough Inn in the background, which occupies part of the north side of the green, is in part of 14th-or 15th-century construction, but mainly 18th-century.

The YMCA outdoor activities centre on the western shore of Windermere a little distance north of Lakeside occupies 240 acres, with a lake frontage of half a mile.

Kingsgate Castle was built in about 1860 close to the sea cliff's edge and the North Foreland itself. It is shown here romantically clothed in ivy.