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As well as being harassed by Matilda's supporters, the North was sorely troubled by Scots raiding parties.

'King Orry IV' drifted from her moorings in a fierce north-westerly storm in January 1976. She had been sold for breaking-up to R Taylor of Bury.

In 1765 he began his career as a master road builder, completing the construction of 200 miles across the North.

It grew from the humble beginnings of a bathing shelter on the border of North Meols into the sizeable conurbation depicted here.

Up to the southern border of Royston, the A10 follows the route of the Roman Ermine Street, but close to the market Ermine Street becomes the Old North Road (which was the A14 and is now the A1198) taking

Beyond is North Hill, above Burton Bradstock, with the hills of Bothenhampton and Hyde forming the eastern horizon (left).

The arid area of grass and the 1950s housing (both family and sheltered) could, with a lightness of touch, have provided a more special entrance to the village from the north, under the shadow of

It has five striking jacks representing England (John Bull) sounding note 'A'; Ireland (Irish girl) note 'B'; Scotland (The Cock of the North) note 'D'; Wales (Welsh girl) note 'G' and Father

At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.

Glasgow received its first charter from King William the Lion in about 1175, and for the first time it was designated by the Latin term civitas (city).

This was the port of destination or call for such lines as Union Castle, North German Lloyd and American Lines.

There was no park in the north end of the town, but the opportunity was there in the shape of some unwanted land.

It was demolished in 1966, and lines to the north thereafter operated out of Queen Street; its site is now occupied by the Royal Concert Hall.

The battlemented building opposite the North Porch, No 9 Cathedral Green, currently the Cathedral Music School, was originally a canonical house re-built , an Italian scholar.

This view looks north- westwards from Horseman's Hill.

LYNMOUTH, set on the rocky north coast of Devon, was 'discovered' in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrook, his first wife.

He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess

Lead mining was a major employer here, but now the stone quarrying is further north, leaving Redmire in peaceful seclusion.

The Falcon, a 17th-century inn, received an 18th-century front, while on the north side the Red Lion was re-fronted in brick in 1792 (the porch, surmounted by a carved wooden lion, was added about

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

services to Belfast were the IOMSPCo, the Barrow Steam Navigation Co, controlled by the Midland Railway with sailings from Barrow and Morecambe, and a joint Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North

The main north porch has a small south porch attached to the angle between nave and transept.

The Abbey of St Mary de Pratis, which is laid out in the north- west angle of the park, was one of the largest in England of the Augustinian Order.

We are looking north-westwards up Bell Street from the Assembly Rooms. Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).