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An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797.

With a plan based on its Roman predecessor, Noviomagus, this fine walled city is divided into quarters by North, South, East and West Streets, which all meet at the splendid Market Cross in the centre

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath.

The tower, which is considered by many to be a keep, was possibly built as a residence for Sir Otto de Grandison (1238-1328), the first justiciar of North Wales.

The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

The link between London Road and Gallowtree Gate, this short north-south road is visually of the later 19th century.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames.

The Chequers (left) has become a tea rooms, whilst next door the North Metro Engineering Works provide service for all kinds of motor vehicles.

This photograph shows the view north-westwards up Church Street from beside the Old Monmouth Hotel, with the churchyard railings on the right.

This fine photograph of Malmesbury Abbey was taken from the north, with the abbey mill buildings below.

Unlike Staines on the north bank, the river plays no part in Egham's townscape.

Built on slightly higher land away from the river, it turns its back on it, and this view looks north-west along the High Street to the Church Street crossroads.

The almshouse set was completed by Twitty's Almshouses on the north side of the churchyard, founded in 1707.

It is a rarity among North London centres in that it stands well away from underground and railway stations, which may or may not account for the survival of such very fine groups of late 19th-century

This view looks north.

It was from here that some of the biggest smack and ketch-rigged trawlers sailed to fish grounds ranging from the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Western Approaches.

The principal import was Lancashire and North Staffordshire coal from Runcorn.

In the distance is the spire of St John the Evangelist's, completed in 1868 to serve the expanded north of the town.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

The remainder of the church is dull, but the north transept was added in 1852 by William Parsons (1796- 1857), an interesting local architect.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.