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This whole beautiful stretch of the North Pembrokeshire coast is studded with small settlements like Abereiddy, where low, single-storied stone cottages squat in sheltered coves and on the exposed clifftops

In this view from the Downs, we look north over Streatley, which was then in Berkshire: its parish church is on the left, with Goring on the right, across the river.

Looking north into The Square, the taxi rank is still in the same place and little has changed save the fashions.

To the north of Pitminster is Poundisford Park, once a hunting ground for the Bishops of Winchester.

The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral. It is interesting that in the right foreground a Belisha Beacon stands, before the introduction of zebra crossings.

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

The medieval church was destroyed by bombs in World War II intended for Lincoln or the RAF base, but in this view we look north past the Horse and Jockey pub in a view little changed since 1960.

Today the University of Essex campus is to the north-west of the town.

There is a faded wall painting of the Holy Rood on the north wall.

Although Congleton produced the most silk of the two towns, for some reason it was always Macclesfield further north that was known as 'the silk town' – but ribbons (nylon ones these days) are still

The prosperity of the North Wales coastline grew steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture.The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

To the north-west of the centre is the church of All Hallows, where parish rooms were added in 1974.

Two miles north of Hitchin lies Ickleford, where the Roman Icknield way crosses the confluence of the Rivers Hiz and Oughton.

Another view of Slapton Sands, this time looking north. The sea wall is a little more substantial today, otherwise the view is unchanged.

The first round-the-world solo yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was part of the family, and he is buried in North Devon.

The huge saddle-backed tower is in an unusual position, north of the nave, and architecturally it is interesting for its fortified appearance.

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

This view, taken from an upper floor window of the execrable Empire Hotel, looks beyond the Parade Gardens, laid out in the 1880s, to North Parade, a long 'palace front' of twenty-five bays with a central

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning

On the right is the village police house; its high pointed wooden porch looks more like Welsh architecture than that of the north-east of England.