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Heading north-east we come to Wisbech St Mary, which is built alongside the New River, which takes the water of the Nene to the huge pumping station at Denver Sluice.

Its calm waters reflect this compact, peaceful, and quiet north Oxfordshire village.

It has always been overshadowed by a more famous battle that took place north of Hastings.

This ruinous Jacobean manor house, about half a mile north-west of Forest Row, was built in 1631 for Sir Henry Crompton, MP for East Grinstead.

Allington is a hamlet on the Medway just to the north of Maidstone. It is best known for its castle, situated hard by the River Medway. This view shows the excellent defensive site of the castle.

Having completed our tour of the central part of the city, this chapter provides an itinerary taking in the best of the great terraces, squares and crescents that were developed to its north.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

North of the bypass are Rumbridge Street and the High Street, offering quieter shopping streets.

This shows the 2,253ft long bridge with a train heading north.

The castle is situated five miles west of Canterbury; all that remains of the Norman fortress is a part of the keep in the north-west angle.

A freight train pulled by a steam locomotive is seen heading north across the viaduct towards Buxton.

A great many gravestones and stone crosses occupy the churchyard at North Stoneham. The church has a three-gabled east end and a west tower rather reminiscent of a Devon church.

The north coast resorts have beaches of pebbles, unlike the sandy beaches of the east coast.

The North Walsham and Dilham canal begins beyond the bridge, which is called Wayford Bridge.

The unusual clerestory windows were created in the 15th century by altering earlier quatrefoil windows, which remain on the less fashionable north side.

The River Bain flows out of Semerwater, the largest lake in the old North Riding, and into the Ure. At around three miles in length, the Bain is the shortest river in England.

This railway town was some two miles north of the original village of Old Woking. The London to Southampton railway arrived in 1838, and 'new' Woking began to develop.

The oldest parts of St Mary's are 13th and 14th-century, found in the south transept and north arcade. The tower is 15th century and the chancel was rebuilt by John Ashworth in 1868.

The wall beyond the boating pool is part of the north defensive wall of the Roman town.

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road. By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development.

William John Wills, born in Totnes in 1834, was a member of Robert Burke's ill-fated expedition to cross Australia from north to south.

The north wing, which is jettied on a moulded wood bressumer, remains half-timbered; the south wing was rebuilt in the 19th century to house the parish hall.

High Street Gate, also known as the North Gate, is a reminder that the city and Cathedral Close live two different lives.