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Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

The fine spire of St Marks Church of 1870 makes a worthwhile visual stop to this view north.

Though the lines were owned by the North Eastern, no less than five other companies had running powers into the city.

A private steam company has already opened six miles of track north of Matlock, and intend one day to get right through to Buxton. With views like this at every turn, it will be incredibly popular.

The church dominates views from the south while behind it, to the north, are the remains of the Norman motte and bailey castle. Remarkably, the brutally pruned lime trees survive.

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

This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.

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.

Though the lines were owned by the North Eastern, no less than five other companies had running powers into the city.

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.

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 boathouse on the north side has also been the base for rowing clubs. Fishing was 6d a day or 10s a season in 1872. A record-breaking 26lbs 14oz pike was caught in 1982.

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.

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.

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

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

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

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.

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