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The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.

The spectacular rock formation of Filey Brigg at the north end of the bay.

The ground floor is barrel-vaulted and the entrance is on the north side at first floor level, both typical defensive measures in tower houses on both sides of the Border.

Oblong in plan, with the church at its southern end and the A47 to the north, the village is entered by long-abandoned medieval roads from Cold Newton to the north, itself a shrunken village, and from

Brought from London, it marked the north- eastern corner of contractor Thomas Docwra's Grove House estate.

The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.

To the north-east of Allenheads beyond Nookton Fell lies the village of Blanchland. It was here in 1165 that an Abbey Church was founded by the Praemonstratensian Order of monks.

The main axis of the principal roads consists of the Roman east-west artery, now the High Street, and one of the Roman north-south roads, now North Hill and Head Street.

Here we see a photograph of children enjoying a day at Bungerley Bridge, north of Clitheroe.

The complete sign on the left, Tetley's Fine Ales, was fixed to the old Bowling Green Hotel; it marked the narrowest point on the London to Edinburgh Great North Road.

In 1951 the Borough of Swindon purchased Penhill Farm, which lay in the parish of Stratton St Margaret, just outside the borough boundary north of the town, for housing.

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl

The north wall of the church and the choir vestry, which was added in 1907.

This beautiful glen is situated to the north east of Snaefell with steep slopes on either side.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

James Atherton, who bought the 170 acres of land on this north-east corner of Wirral, had to modify his original grand plans.

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

The wall formed three sides of the town defences, from the north-east Tower round to the Eagle Tower; the fourth side was provided by the north curtain of the castle.

The castle was owned by the mighty Neville family until the 16th century, when in 1569 it was confiscated by the Crown following their involvement in the Rising of the North and a plot to overthrow

Photographed from the north-east when the lands to the north were under water, the church is silhouetted against the sky.

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

The gatehouse was then converted to a domestic house, and it is now the city's folk museum.

Carnforth, six miles north of Lancaster, has a place in history as a railway town.

This view of the cathedral from the north side shows sheep grazing in what is now almost the city centre.