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In the north-east corner of Dartmoor, in open country, is one of the finest stone rings, Scorhill. It once consisted of 36 stones erected without any shaping.

We are looking north-east up the valley to the town.

Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal. The Barracks is the headquarters of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

We can see a part of the white North Porch at the side of the tower. There was still a graveyard on the Fennel Street side, and Chetham College and courtyard can be seen next door.

Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village.

There was a line from here to the North Station, and it was also here that the trams belonging to Lytham St Anne's Corporation terminated.

This is the Mayor's Walk along the north side of the keep and within the inner bailey.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

The open space around the square and the High Street to the north is bounded by well-mannered Georgian houses. 19th-century encroachments on the right do not distract from the beauty of the church, which

Lydford was once an important halt on the South Western Railway, which skirted round Dartmoor to the north and passed through Tavistock and Bere Alston on its way to Plymouth.

A brass of a 14in figure to Elizabeth Prout, 1440, is in the chancel north wall.

Wetherby lies on the Great North Road and was once an important stopping point for coaches. In this picture, the River Wharfe flows placidly under the arches of the ancient bridge.

Until 1771, the North Gate of Oxford spanned the Cornmarket beside this tower. This was also the site of the Bocardo prison, where the Oxford Martyrs were held.

Postbridge takes its name from the arched bridge that was built to carry the post road from Princetown in the south-west to Moretonhampstead in the north-east.

The remote north Cornish coastal parish of Morwenstow is famous for Robert Stephen Hawker, the eccentric vicar, poet and writer. The Bush Inn is at Crosstown, just above the church.

The north- western corner is a continuation of Kingsbury Street, and the parish church of St Mary dominates the view.

Langcliffe lies 1 mile to the north of Settle on the route towards the majestic Three Peaks. Industry in the village included candle making and paper production.

The Midland Railway station opened for traffic on 2 May 1870, replacing the somewhat smaller yet grander original station designed by North Midland Railway architect Francis Thompson.

Piel is one of three islands off the coast at Barrow, and is crowned by the ruined remains of 14th-century Piel Castle, which boasts the largest medieval keep in the north-west of England.

This large village, just off the ancient Roman Road of Dere Street, later the Great North Road and the A1, lies near the Durham border west of Darlington.

This view shows a virtually-deserted High Street in the undistinguished former colliery town of Normanton, three miles north of Wakefield in South Yorkshire.

Wentworth Woodhouse is one of England's forgotten treasures, four miles north-west of Rotherham.

Situated just off the old Great North Road (the Roman Dere Street and the modern B6275), Aldbrough St John takes its name from the parish church.

Bedale was granted its market charter by Henry III, and this view of the North End of the cobbled Market Place shows the 14th-century market cross standing on its six stone steps, with the impressive tower