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The church interior is large, with granite arcades for the north and south aisles. The benches date from 1894.

Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.

Grange is the hamlet at the foot of Borrowdale, where the River Derwent, seen on the left of this photograph, meanders through water meadows into mighty Derwent Water to the north.

Only parts of the north and east wings remain; the great range of stables has gone. James II dined here in 1688, failed to raise support and fled to London and exile.

Places such as Blackburn and Burnley were all but empty as millworkers and their families escaped en masse to Blackpool, Southport, Morecambe, Scarborough and North Wales.

In this 1929 photograph the north side of Hermitage Road is now built up, while the south side remains partly undeveloped.

In the north-east corner of Dartmoor, in open country, is one of the finest stone rings, Scorhill. It once consisted of 36 stones erected without any shaping.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the north

The scene to the north- west from the view point. Rockley Jetty Point, with its rail link, is across the water, with Holton Heath and Wareham Forest in the distance.

This is how the River Avon looked just north of the city centre in 1923, forty years before the water meadows on the left were turned into the huge Central Car Park.

Another view of Sackville Street, looking north to the Nelson Monument. This monument was badly damaged in 1966, and later demolished.

The North Staffordshire area of the National Coal Board included such collieries as Chatterley Whitfield, Norton & Biddulph, Silverdale,Wolstanton, and Trentham.

The North Yorkshire village of Ampleforth is perhaps best known for its Roman Catholic boys' school situated to the east of the village, but this view shows the Main Street of the village itself, which

The steep road leading down to the bridge over the River Don at Oughtibridge, north of Sheffield, leads the eye to the steel works across the river.

The White Hart Inn at Wadworth, south of Doncaster, was once an important stopping place on the old Great North Road.

The parish church features a 12th-century nave and north aisle, and a 15th-century tower. The area around the chancel arch includes some stonework from the village's Saxon church.

Here we see the narrow main street of this north Norfolk market town. The road sign on the left depicts a torch, and warns of a school just around the corner.

This picture was taken from just outside the parish churchyard looking north towards Sandford Hill. The white building on the left is Jubilee Cottages, built in 1935.

On the opposite corner stand the grandiose offices and showroom of the North Metropolitan Electric Company.

Today, with increased housing development, North Warnborough has almost joined up with Odiham. A new bypass has helped to reduce the high volume of traffic running through the village.

Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, still holds its market every Wednesday, just as it has done since medieval times.

Returning to the Great North Road, we come to Buckden.

Collingham stands on the River Wharfe on a major route north from Leeds, and was originally the site of a Roman settlement.

Situated five miles north-west of Middleton-in-Teesdale, High Force offers stunning scenery and the spectacular sight of the Tees plunging some seventy feet over the cliffs of Great Whin Sill.