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The bridge carried the great North Road until Ernest Marples opened a much- needed bypass in 1962.

The Leicester architects Harry Roberts and John Woodhouse-Simpson added the north aisle and chancel in 1859.

A large number of its fine stone buildings now dominate the north part of the town.

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.

In 1765 he began his career as a master road builder, completing the construction of 200 miles of highway across the North.

This view looks north up High Street towards the Church Street and Heathfield Road crossroads.

On the site of Pearsons until the mid 1920s was Enfield Palace, which probably gained its name as the inheritor of parts of the demolished Elsyng Palace to the north of the town, which lay within the Forty

It was served by the narrow gauge Tal-y-Llyn railway, the first of the slate railways of North Wales to be preserved. The railway runs inland from Tywyn on the Cardigan Bay coast.

At the summit of Lodge Hill to the north of the Upper Winchendon ridge is a French chateau.

This view gives a clear example of the impact commercial motor traffic had on the Great North Road, prior to the building of the M1 motorway.

It was Queen Victoria who originally argued the need for such a hospital; its objective was to care for the gravely-afflicted casualties of war.The building attracted criticism, and a mix-up with

With the forge next door (left), it was an important staging post for coaches travelling from London to East Anglia or the North. Many coach routes started and finished here.

The railway station is in the foreground, with the north pier and esplanade on the far side of the bay beyond the yachts and steamers.

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.

Leading north off Warwick Road, Frog Lane is one of most attractive lanes in the village, albeit now interspersed with modern houses of the 1960s onwards.

These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).

As we look north down St Barnabas Road, we see that the trees and houses look very new.

Up the hill towards one of Chalfont St Peter's commons, Gold Hill, Tudor-style shops and flats were built on the north side of the road in 1922, called Market Place and decked out with fake

On the north side of the village green, the church dates from 1744, including the tower and spire, with additions for Lord Abergavenny made in the 1880s.

This view was taken looking north along Bridge Street towards the Market Place – indeed, in the left centre of the view we can see the cupola and stair tower of the Town Hall.

This new house, built to the north of the old priory, was built in 1735.

Ozone Terrace is still partly visible (left),and so are weather- boarded Wings and Cobb Gate (centre right) behind the North Wall of the harbour.

1793 fountain remains, while the Georgian bay windows to the range beyond conceal Bishop Bekynton's mid 15th-century Nova Opera, a range of houses over workshops and shops built along the north

Heading back north, we cross the River Yeo and reach Somerton, another medieval market town, this time on a ridge in the Polden Hills and on the south bank of the River Cary, which weaves through the