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A picturesque view of Hawthornden.

Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market. Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Lying in the north west of the county, Mildenhall boasts one of the most magnificent churches in the region.

Freebrough Hill, located on the edge of Moorsholm on the A171 Guisborough- to-Whitby moor road, is steeped in legend.

Further north-east we reach Crowborough, a village that became a health resort in the 1870s when Lord Abergavenny followed the advice of a Dr Prince.

Ramsgate is the third in the trinity of Thanet holiday resorts; its attractions would have been familiar to the young Princess Victoria, who as a small girl stayed in a house near the bandstand on the

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also Dean of

Most of the region's towns have fine buildings and churches paid for by the wool trade that flourished in these parts.

This building on Ashtead Common, owned by Frederick Felton, served as the village bakery around the turn of the century, but also formed a focus for the hordes of London day and Sunday school children

The city was and is the capital centre of Wales, and this importance has increased - it is now a modern commercial and administrative centre for the nation.

Near the Wharfe and overlooking the 1592ft Simon's Seat, Appletreewick was the resting place of monks on their journey between Bolton Abbey and Fountains Abbey.

An unusual, but often most welcome, combination of pharmacy and sub-post office, the building on the near left has performed the function under at least three owners to the knowledge

The spectacular falls last flowed across the 300-yard crag at the end of the Ice Age.

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.

The road widens to form Posey Green, with the 1930s Horseshoe Inn on the right out of camera shot; it is a rambling mix of local sandstone and timber-framing with a huge horseshoe-

With the ivy all removed it is now much easier to see the castle, even if in doing so it has lost some of its romantic appeal.

The main entrance to Lacock Abbey, with its double flight of steps and two tall ogee-headed windows, is an early example of the 18th-century Gothic Revival.

The council bought the strip of land alongside the railway, and the area was ready to be developed.

This winter view of the chapel makes it look like a prison rather than the fascinating building it is. Robert Corraunce built it on instructions from the prior of Lynn.

St Mary's, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire.

This was constructed in the early 19th century by Walter May so that he could enjoy a prospect of the sea, however the South Downs prevented his dream from being realised.