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Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.

Stour, two miles south-west of Chilham. In the main street of the village, we see a nice picket fence and some typically ivy-clad buildings.

Great Mitton is on the north bank of the river, and Little, or Lower Mitton on the south bank, with the River Ribble (which we can see here) in between.

On the other shore of the river, the railway continued west to Bideford, which it reached in 1855; from there it was extended south to Torrington (1872) and west to Westward Ho!

In later years she took up residence at a number of similar south coast resorts.

In this view we look south-west towards the parish church with its fine green sandstone 15th-century tower.

Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon

Further south and out of picture, nearer the railway line, is Bateman's Brewery with its mainly 19th-century buildings.

Forest Row, recorded in the early 14th century, lies three miles south-west of East Grinstead on the verge of Ashdown Forest.

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

The Hatfield Hotel (centre right) looks very modern for 1950, and contrasts with the Victorian buildings on Parade Road South. In the foreground is a Victorian sprung cart in the shape of a lifeboat.

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

Tyrley (pronounced Turley) Locks consists of a flight of five locks south of Market Drayton. Along with coal, the main products that were shipped along this canal were cheese and milk.

This stunningly beautiful church is known as the 'cathedral of south Cheshire'.

The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.

The garden plots of the houses are prominent, sheltered by hedges and mostly on the south-facing slope on the right.

Christchurch (or Christchurch Twyneham, to give the town its old name) is one of the oldest settlements on the south coast, probably being in existence even before the Romans settled in the shelter

The meadow behind the present rectory, now over-run with rabbits, shows how well the village has been preserved, with most of the developments to the south and west.

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve.

These once stood in the niches of the choir stalls and, unlike much contemporary interior decoration, survived the landmine dropped near the South Wall.

Upper Clatford is a mile and a quarter south of Andover. There is a post office and a church here, and the River Anton flows through the valley.

On the left is the Robin Hood and Little John Inn, an unusual combination in an inn name, perhaps echoing the legend that the medieval man in green once used the bay which takes his name on the coast south

The building on the left, which survived, has now been demolished, leaving an approach to the south door from the Millennium Bridge.