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

It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.

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.

Back at the Victorian eastern end of the village, the photographer looks north-east across the Recreation Ground, where mothers and children are enjoying the summer afternoon.

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

The fields of Putnoe Farm were developed in the 1950s: here we look north-west from the shopping parade towards Braeside across Bowhill and the park, here in its infancy but now well treed and attractive

Goathland, also on the popular North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which carries 200,000 passengers each year, has become a haven of tea and souvenir shops.

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.

The church and the old core of the village are further north, but this view is along King's Road with the common to the right of the rider.

Carefully positioned, with views to the north over School Lake, this is an imposing Italianate house with fine red brick and terra cotta facing, accessed by an imposing triple-arch porte-cochere.

Both Sheep Market and All Saints Street lead down to what was the Great North Road, but Stamford has since been bypassed. The town bus station is on the right, on the site of Stamford Castle.

It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.

Nearby, Linton Falls cascade over the North Craven fault, giving a spectacular view at any time of the year.

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

The elegant five-bay north and south arcades are witness to this date. One of two 14th-century tomb recesses with ball-flower decoration can be seen between columns to the left.

Looking North-East This view was taken slightly further from the south-west than photograph W171036 (previous page).

parades of the 1930s grouped around the underground station into a series of timber-framed vernacular buildings of the 16th century, that one realises that the original village centre was well to the north

The Lido is situated about a mile to the north of Ruislip village.

This is the south side of West Street, from the north-east. W Frost, bookseller and publisher of the ' Bridport News', was next door to the Sun Hotel, where the landlord was William Kingman.

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

This is an attractive village ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

Here we see Hutton Hall from the north, showing the main entrance and driveway, the view that house party guests would first see upon arriving by carriage, having been brought up from the Pease's

This interesting house was built on the north bank of the Ure in 1459 for the Metcalfes, an influential Wensleydale family. Thomas Metcalfe was Privy Councillor to the Duchy of Lancaster.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and many fine inns survive here.