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at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for people from the industrial towns and cities of the north

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

This picturesque quarter of Tetbury leads from the north-east corner of the Chipping to a triangular green with a splendid copper beech tree.

Charminster parish straddles the little River Cerne to the north-west of Dorchester.

Linton-on-Ouse is situated north-west of York in the broad Vale of York.

The old lifeboat station at Runswick Bay on the North Sea coast is rather incongruously painted with black and white half-timbering in this photograph.

The 15th-century spire soars above the River Wreake on its south side, with the now rather mundane Village Street to its north.

The north aisle was rebuilt in 1856 and a clerestory was added. The pews were replaced by chairs in 1952.

Along with Woodhouse Moor to the north, the park was considered the chief lung of the city, where for a few hours at the weekend factory workers had an opportunity to get away from the dust

The Romans built several channels in the north, but this, constructed in 1566, pre-dated the northern canals where many people think the canal age started.

A view north up the High Street, which bears slightly to the right. Ahead is the entrance to Surrey Street by a corner building - it still survives.

A view north up the High Street, which bears slightly to the right. Ahead is the entrance to Surrey Street by a corner building - it still survives.

In 1897 the building was extended so that the original Norman structure formed the north aisle, and a new nave and south aisle were built.

The Town Hall was later used for the North Tyneside District Offices.

Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.

In this view of the High Street, looking north, we see a pleasing medley of old and new, the Georgian buildings standing shoulder to shoulder with later Victorian infill.

Until the 1950s Middle Mill Weir occupied the centre of this view, but the bridge over the weir remains as an important pedestrian link to the sportsfields and parks on the north bank of the River.

This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.

Local opinion is that the village is every bit as striking as the more famous Clovelly in nearby North Devon.

The distant hill with the white house is above Helford Passage on the north side of the main estuary.

One of the most spectacular is North Cleave Gut, 120 yards deep and ten yards wide, with a 350ft waterfall at its head.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

A group of customers wait to saddle-up for an excursion from the White House Riding School at Huntington, a small village just to the north of York.

Here we have a closer view, looking north, of the shopping parade soon after its construction. The forecourt of a National petrol station can be seen beyond the main building.