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To the north-east of Masham and three miles south of Bedale, Snape Castle was once the home of Katherine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry VIII.

The wall was designed to deflect the waves that so often come up the English Channel from the south-west on stormy days.

Immediately to its south she built this convalescent home in the 1880s in Victorian Gothic style.

The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.

This spectacular swell, stirred up by the prevailing south-westerly winds, demonstrates not only the need for the massive solidity of these stone and wooden jetties against the power of the sea, but

South of Boroughbridge is the old Roman town of Aldborough - Isurium Brigantum.

The War Office purchased the island in 1866 with a view to building a fort above South Sands, which was thought to be a likely landing place for the French at a time when there was a perceived

Great Mitton is on the north bank of the river, and Little, or Lower Mitton on the south bank, with the River Ribble (which we can see here) in between.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

This is a view of the street looking south.

Historians believe that the Stour was a major attraction to the Romans when the future Emperor Vespasian chose Wimborne as the site for his base camp for the conquest of south-west England in AD45.

Taken just south of Neston, this photograph shows the view across the Dee estuary towards Wales. Even today, only forty years after this picture was taken, the estuary has become much more silted up.

Without doubt, Cheddar Gorge is the most spectacular natural phenomenon in South-west England.

Looking from South Street the general appearance of Victoria Road has changed little in the last 50 years.

South Devon Railway purchased the first Catholic Church of 1854 for £2000 after deciding to open the rail- way tunnels beneath it.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

Fawley is home to the Esso oil refinery, which lies to the south of the parish; it started operating in 1951, and covers 3,000 acres.

Uppingham School had a sports ground to the south, known as the Middle; and another to the east known as the Upper.

The little village of Loose, pronounced 'Luse', is pleasantly situated on the little river of the same name just to the south of Maidstone.

Elvet Bridge was built by Bishop Hugh le Puiset in 1160 to give the peninsula direct road access to the south. It was repaired by Bishop Richard Fox between 1494 and 1501.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath

The south transept is a survival from the medieval church, which was so drastically altered during the 19th century.