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The area around Glasson is teaming with wildlife, and is a bird watcher's paradise from Conder Green down to Cockerham Sands in the south. Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Portreath was built to serve the mines around Camborne and Redruth, and in the 19th century it was busy with sailing ships bringing coal from South Wales and returning with copper ores.

Our tour starts south of the River Ouse in the area developed by King Edward the Elder in AD919; it was defended by the King's Ditch, some of which still remains after all these centuries.

The Main Line of the Stourbridge Canal swung south and then east around Brierley Hill to meet up with the Dudley Canal at Black Delph Locks.The Dudley Canal passed through Round Oak Steel Works and

Shops on the south side include that of grocer and jam manufacturer William G Cornick. The Greyhound Hotel forms the penultimate frontage.

At the time this picture was taken, Parkstone was being compared to Menton in the south of France; there is also a Mentone Road.

This picture shows the south front with its fine portico with an entablature supported by eight Corinthian columns. In front of it is a small covered stall set up for a local charitable event.

The town developed as a Victorian watering hole for the well-to-do, especially after the railway came in 1863, but in post-war years it has been the destination for mass-tourism, mainly from the south

This is the south-east front, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1689 and 1700.

To the south of the palace are the Pond Gardens.

This view of the High Street, looking south from the Station Road crossroads, changed dramatically when the M23 and M25 by-passed the town; much has been pedestrianised and demolished.

This view looks south-west along North End Road past the former pub, now a house.

Norman control over England was effectively limited to the south-east of the country; there were rumours that the sons of King Harold were in contact with King Diarmait of Leinster, who was prepared to

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

This view looks south down the main street towards the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas - we can see its 14th-century crossing tower (centre).

Upper Rushall Street and Peal Street running north and south from the bottom of the church steps indicate ancient routes to Lichfield and Wednesbury.

Mrs Maria Heathcote, 1768, is resting in peace in the south transept; she is represented as Britannia seated, one hand holding an anchor, the other a medallion with her portrait.

In the picture: In the picture we can see a bus stop sign on a concrete post, for Southdown route 106 only, Worthing to South Ferring.

The original Preston Post Office had been at the south end of Wide Shambles in a building leaning on the side of the shambles.

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.

The Cathedral viewed from the south has been a favourite subject for artists - including, of course, Constable.

The ruin on the south-east of the church was the abbey's chapter house. Never fully completed, the west tower is 142ft 6ins high; the north porch has a groined roof with well-carved bosses.