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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 Brook runs beneath this historic building and was known to flood.

Park Street 1892 North-west from Winsford we reach Exford, where the River Exe is but a stream.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just long enough to sample the waters in the Pump Room before departing for more

Beyond the poplars was the old London and North West Railway station on the line from Cheddington. The staion, by 1955 only for freight trains, was demolished in 1960.