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Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!, was formed.

Dinas Mawddwy is also infamous for the murder of one Lewis Owen, Baron of the Exchequer and Vice Chamberlain of North Wales.

In the background we can see the tall Pharos lighthouse and the North Euston Hotel, designed in 1840 by the famous architect Sir Decimus Burton.

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

The small 7th-century church of St John the Evangelist is one of the finest examples of early Christian architecture in the North.

However, it looks north to the Falcon Hotel. The coach entrance and yard were soon to be enclosed providing a foyer and lounge - but not yet.

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

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

Syston, a Domesday village situated about four miles north of Leicester, was industrialised by an influx of framework knitters in the 19th century, which generated standardised red brick buildings

To the north of the village are earthworks, all that remains of the lost hamlet of Snelston.

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

In the north transept the east window, a depiction of the crucifixion, was restored in 1970.

This view is taken looking north across the harbour. High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary.

Over on the left is Manchester Exchange station, opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1884 and famous for the long platform which linked it to Victoria Station.

This means that double-decker buses and coaches cannot head north out of Whalley towards Mitton.

In 1893 Penrith Castle was owned by the London and North Western Railway Company which had stables for their horses inside the ruins.

On the north side of the road is the Plough Inn, occupying another of the 16th- and 17th-century village houses, in this case with late medieval cruck frames within.

To the north of the village are earthworks, all that remains of the lost hamlet of Snelston.

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester, and to the west of the busy A6.

The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.

Opened in 1823, the Bude Canal served a large area of north Cornwall. The canal itself extended some 35 miles inland, though by the time this picture was taken much of it had already closed.

This view is taken looking north across the harbour. High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary.

The River Trent is navigable for some 93 miles, and plays a vital role in linking the waterways of the North East with those of the Midlands.

We are in the Ouse valley just north of Newhaven. St John's church is on high ground overlooking the tidal river. It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a shingled octagonal spire.