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The drains run north-east, roughly parallel for approximately twenty miles.

A walk up Gay Street, named after Robert Gay, who granted John Wood the lease on this hilly area north-west of the old city, leads to one of the most celebrated pieces of this remarkable city's townscape

This view looks from the north bank of the Avon, near the toll bridge. The mill buildings are still in use (compare this view with the last one).

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.

Leaving the town by North Street the traveller was soon in the country, passing Marshall's Park on the right.

Looking north-westwards from Lower Yonderover Farm, with hay-bales in Mill House paddock (foreground) and the sign for the Star Inn (centre), the River Brit skirts the edge of the meadow

This view looks north to the junction with High Street. All the taller houses on the right were replaced by what is now Debenhams depart- ment store.

A less familiar view of this much-photographed place.

This town, which stands above the Colne in the north of the county about five miles from Braintree, was once famous for its silk and crepe.This wonderful post-war view looks up the High Street, with

Travelling north along the straight road from Brockenhurst brings the traveller to Lyndhurst, an ideal centre for exploring the northern edges of the great forest.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of The Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.

Standing on a steep hillside north-west of Ashford, and with commanding views of the Weald, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family.

The village was confined to the south bank of the river; the development of the north bank did not take place until the building of the Victoria Bridge.

The old Forrest Stores building frontage gives the north side of the Square a comfortable enduring appearance. Woolworths and Boots still snuggle side by side on the left of this photograph.

The railed and culverted Thornton Beck runs through the village of Thornton Dale, east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors.

The village was confined to the south bank of the river; the development of the north bank did not take place until the building of the Victoria Bridge.

Taken from close to the Spaniards pub, this view looks along the dead straight link between North End Way and Hampstead Lane, which is still recognisable.

The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

The only remaining piece is the cop- per cross from the very top, which is now in the north aisle of St Andrew's.

Although some of the cob and thatch buildings have been replaced, there are still examples to be seen, and North Street is narrow to this day.

Viewed from North Street, the main body of the church shows the nave's clerestory windows and the chancel's tall east window of five lights, but the spire is its crowning glory.

The Square lies at the north end of the Long Bridge. The building to the right is the red façade of The Athenaeum, built in 1888, which houses the museum and a collection of fossils.

With the slopes of Black Combe and the Lakeland mountains to the north, Millom occupies an enviable position, and was the home of the Lakeland poet Norman Nicholson.

Barford St John is a typical example of the remoteness of some of the villages in north-west Oxfordshire.