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This lovely village extends from Highwood Hill to the north to Mill Hill East underground station in the south.

Three miles south-east of Southport, Scarisbrick Hall was remodelled by John Foster in 1814 and by Augustus Welby Pugin between 1836 and 1845.

The photographic angle is south- eastwards, down to Bell Street Stores (centre left), run by the grocer E J Coombes.

Its name is rather apt, as the village is just a couple of miles south of Wakehurst, an extensive estate under the care of the National Trust, and also the outpost of the Royal Botanical Gardens

Inside the church, remnants of a carved Saxon cross depicting a dragon and a priest are built into the south aisle.

In 1325, Sir Robert de Hungerford repaired and refitted the south aisle as a chantry chapel, and another chantry was added in 1451.

His two ships that sailed to the South Seas, the 'Resolution' and 'Endeavour', were built here.

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

To the south, St Hugh's Carthusian monastery, consecrated in 1880, has a very visible tall spire. The monastery is still in use.

It sits at the south-western end of the lake, where the River Dysynni comes tumbling out in a series of little cascades. The lake has always been famous for trout fishing.

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.

Extensive earthworks on the south-west side of the village mark its site.

Extensive earthworks on the south-west side of the village mark its site.

Prominent on the south side of the village in 1955, Ruddles Brewery, founded in 1858, was producing fine real ales, but in 1986 it was sold to Watneys, eventually to be absorbed into the Grand Metropolitan

The font (right, through the south arcade arch) is 12th-century, and decorated with rather naive yet animated carvings of dragons, and a sword-wielding St George.

Until the 1930s the south side of the market, facing the camera, was bordered by a row of buildings which would be later demolished.

At the end of the south aisle is the cadaver tomb of John Baret (d1467) under a unique roof with reflective mirrors.

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

The build- ing on the right is the Midland Bank; between it and the church- yard is a narrow passage, now called Church Lane, leading to the south door of the church.

Here we see the river bank of the Ribble just west of the main railway bridge at the end of South Meadows.

His successor, Henry II, gave the manor of Luton to his illegitimate son Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and a new church was built south of the present St Mary's.

Famous travellers over the Wharfe include Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell; the bridge was also used over many years by drovers, who took thousands of cattle south.