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This elegant Elizabethan mansion was originally built for the Secretary of the Council of the North in 1568.

This Cotswold town has much in common with other old wool towns to the north and south of it, such as Chipping Campden and Cirencester.

It was good to get back to the small pleasures in life after the wartime years, and this small hotel seems a popular watering hole near the North Wales coast.

The fine modern houses are a world away from the ancient stocks outside Broughton churchyard, 18th-century Toll Bar Cottage, Pinfold Cottage or the smithy where the Mercer family used to shoe horses.

The church building in the distance is St Mary's, whose north wall still carries scars said to be of a lesser civil war skirmish fought here.

Kelvedon Hatch is a popular commuter village in the Green Belt north-west of Brentwood. It is now well-known for its formerly 'secret' government nuclear bunker.

This beautiful 17th- century building appears to have been called New Hall in 1725, when it belonged to Thomas Chambers of Gorcott Hall (three miles north of Studley).

Rochford is a small town on the River Roach in south east Essex, a few miles to the north of Southend.

This part of south Derbyshire did not have the abundant stone for its buildings which the north of the county enjoyed, so many villages have a definitely Midlands, rather than northern, feel about them

To the north of Borth lies Ynyslas, which consists of a fine series of sand dunes, many now protected as a National Nature Reserve.

Further along on the same side is Taylor's Drug Stores, who had a number of branches north of the Humber.

The village lies north of the Seaford road, which crosses the Cuckmere River at Exceat.

Oundle, best known for its public school, lies in the north-east corner of the county. It may have expanded somewhat over the years, but it still remains a compact market town.

Perched on a windy hill a mile or two north of Portscatho, Gerrans has been called a 'plain-looking village'.

Cadgwith is one of Cornwall's prettiest fishing villages, and huddles between steep cliffs a few miles north of the Lizard. The beach is a clutter of boats and fishing paraphernalia.

The south aisle was replaced in the late 13th century; the north aisle was only added in 1900, though it was built in a 14th-century style.

This view looks north-west down Ennerdale from Great Gable's sister peak, Green Gable.

The ferry ran for the last time in 1964, but the present footbridge was not built until 1985, linking again the two halves of the North Downs Way.

Amberley church lies between the castle and the village at the western end of a ridge of high ground, which is about one mile north of Houghton Bridge.

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.

The livestock market was originally held in the High Street on Tuesdays, before being moved to North Street in 1865; thirty years later it moved again to this site in Woodbridge Road.

This dizzying view from the summit of High Tor looks north towards Matlock.

The castle had two main towers and a further tower guarding the entrance on the north side.There was no keep. Kentish Ragstone was brought across the River Thames for the construction.

From a point further north-east, this view looks towards the gatehouse past the elaborate fountain which still remains today and the entrance gates beyond the thatched bothy, now replaced.