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It grew from the humble beginnings of a bathing shelter on the border of North Meols into the sizeable conurbation depicted here.

Beyond is North Hill, above Burton Bradstock, with the hills of Bothenhampton and Hyde forming the eastern horizon (left).

Up to the southern border of Royston, the A10 follows the route of the Roman Ermine Street, but close to the market Ermine Street becomes the Old North Road (which was the A14 and is now the A1198) taking

Glasgow received its first charter from King William the Lion in about 1175, and for the first time it was designated by the Latin term civitas (city).

This was the port of destination or call for such lines as Union Castle, North German Lloyd and American Lines.

There was no park in the north end of the town, but the opportunity was there in the shape of some unwanted land.

Just before the First World War, it was taken over by the North Eastern Railway Company as a convalescent home for railway workers, not only from the NER but all the other great companies.

New buildings along North Street included the Court House (1831) and the Mechanics' Institute (1834).

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

Beyond is North Hill, above Burton Bradstock, with the hills of Bothenhampton and Hyde forming the eastern horizon (left).

On the north side of the street the confident commercial frontage is that of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, which was absorbed into Lloyds (right).

Ketton stone-faced Gothic Revival church was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North

The View to Bridge Street This section of Regent Street is immediately to the north of the McIlroy's store.

Half way between London and Edinburgh on the busy Great North Road, Ferrybridge was a hub, with smaller roads branching off into West Yorkshire.

Listed by Edward Baines in his Gazetteer with the many villages of Blackburn Hundred, Downham is 3 miles north-east of Clitheroe.

In 1811 the local boat builder at Salcombe completed the ketch 'Ceres' for Capt William Lewis of Bude for trading with north Spanish ports, though for much of 1813 and 1814 she was employed carrying

It was demolished in 1966, and lines to the north thereafter operated out of Queen Street; its site is now occupied by the Royal Concert Hall.

This photograph is a good general view of the chapel looking from the north-west.

Victorian Glasgow may have been a parvenu compared with Edinburgh, with its ancient history as Scotland's capital and its 18th-century reputation as the Athens of the North, but Glasgow's unparalleled

To the north of the village is the massive Thorp Arch industrial estate, developed during the war as a munitions factory directly on the Wetherby to Church Fenton railway line.

He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess

LYNMOUTH, set on the rocky north coast of Devon, was 'discovered' in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrook, his first wife.

Lead mining was a major employer here, but now the stone quarrying is further north, leaving Redmire in peaceful seclusion.

The main north porch has a small south porch attached to the angle between nave and transept.