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The Hill of Bran rises just to the north-east of Llangollen; perched high upon its summit is the ruin of Castell Dinas Bran.

Situated on a rocky promontory four miles north of Oban where the waters of Loch Etive and the Firth of Lorne meet, Dunstaffnage was built on the orders of Alexander II.

This view is north-eastwards, towards Bridport, with Hyde Plantation glimpsed on the distant rural skyline (far right).

This is the landscape northwards from the limekilns and quarries north of Wych to the Main Street at Bothenhampton (left to right).

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

Built by William Baker, the chief engineer for the London and North Western Railway, it used 48,115 rivets.

There has been much debate about the age and significance of these four giant stones a mile north of the village of Aylesford.

A view looking north along the High Street.

The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966. On the skyline stands the monumental mine chimney at the summit of Kit Hill.

In the foreground is the village of North Brentor; Christ Church was built in 1856 after it was decided that the long walk to the old church was too much for the poor delicate villagers.

From the medieval church, Blomfield also reset the two-thirds of a Norman arch as a window in the north transept.

The small horse-drawn carts carried less active holiday-makers onto the sands, but could probably be hired as an alternative to a donkey ride.

Yorkshire regiments fought in many parts of the world, including Egypt, Europe and the North-West Frontier.

This hotel was originally known as the Rose and Crown, but changed its name in 1840 after the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, convalesced here while touring in the north of England.

The nearest this long, straggling village has to a market square is a broadening of the Norwich to North Walsham road, beside which the War Memorial stands under chestnut trees.

The original spire collapsed in the 17th century, but the top of it has been reset on the stair-turret on the north face of the tower.

Church, West Rasen is noted for its 15th-century pack horse bridge which crosses the River Rase, from which the Rasens are named, and which descends from The Wolds to merge with the Ancholme to head north

The Aldwych sweeps off sharply to the north towards Kingsway, leaving an island of fine buildings between it and the Strand.The scheme for the development of the locality was completed in 1905, involving

Ramsbottom is a small cotton town on the Irwell less than four miles north of Bury, and just over eleven miles from Manchester.

Here we are looking north across the valley, along Telford's 70ft-high aqueduct of 1801, which carries the Ellesmere Canal.

This view is north-eastwards, towards Bridport, with Hyde Plantation glimpsed on the distant rural skyline (far right).

Chester sits on a sandstone spur north of the Dee, which winds past the ancient castle, begun in 1069, but now much modified by late 18th-century additions.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

Here we are looking north across the valley, along Telford's 70ft-high aqueduct of 1801, which carries the Ellesmere Canal.