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North-east of the church is the Hop Pole Hotel, a good 18th-century coaching inn that also catered for visitors to the great Dukeries mansions.

Boroughbridge probably saw its best days when it was a coaching town for traffic on the Great North Road, and had no less than twenty-two inns.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

Before local government was established, Shefford was fortunate in the action of a 16th-century resident called Robert Lucas, who left his property for the benefit of the citizens of Shefford.

Tin Ghaut was just off Grape Lane, once home to Whitby explorer Captain James Cook, who is remembered in monuments and museums all around the north-east coast. This charming view no longer exists.

Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.

The water level seems very low, which is fortunate for the lady wearing the long skirts.

Until the early 19th century, Dunoon was nothing more than a small village clustered around a castle.

It prospered in medieval times as an important halt for pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, since it lies just off the North Downs Way.

Built in 1822 it was originally an entrance to Easton Neston, Hawksmoor's great country house, set in a vast landscaped park north of the River Tove.

This view looks north-east and immediately you see the contrast with most other villages in this book - this is a mainly brick built village.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

There are no images of the original building, but a decision by Liverpool Town Council in 1776 established the necessity for it on the basis that the North Meols coastline was deemed dangerous to shipping

Already an endangered occupation in 1965, fishing is now in terminal decline along the whole of the north-west coastline.

Moreton is an administrative centre for the North Cotswolds.

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

The view is north-eastwards from Finger Corner and the garden hedge of the Homestead (left foreground).

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including The Bell and The Chequers Hotels.

Originally the fort comprised a two-storey building with a north tower and a gatehouse.