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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.

Another view of Sackville Street, looking north to the Nelson Monument. This monument was badly damaged in 1966, and later demolished.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the north

This is how the River Avon looked just north of the city centre in 1923, forty years before the water meadows on the left were turned into the huge Central Car Park.

The scene to the north- west from the view point. Rockley Jetty Point, with its rail link, is across the water, with Holton Heath and Wareham Forest in the distance.

The North Yorkshire village of Ampleforth is perhaps best known for its Roman Catholic boys' school situated to the east of the village, but this view shows the Main Street of the village itself, which

The steep road leading down to the bridge over the River Don at Oughtibridge, north of Sheffield, leads the eye to the steel works across the river.

The White Hart Inn at Wadworth, south of Doncaster, was once an important stopping place on the old Great North Road.

The parish church features a 12th-century nave and north aisle, and a 15th-century tower. The area around the chancel arch includes some stonework from the village's Saxon church.

The North Staffordshire area of the National Coal Board included such collieries as Chatterley Whitfield, Norton & Biddulph, Silverdale,Wolstanton, and Trentham.

Here we see the narrow main street of this north Norfolk market town. The road sign on the left depicts a torch, and warns of a school just around the corner.

Further along on the same side is Taylor's Drug Stores, who had a number of branches north of the Humber.

Perched on a windy hill a mile or two north of Portscatho, Gerrans has been called a 'plain-looking village'.

Cadgwith is one of Cornwall's prettiest fishing villages, and huddles between steep cliffs a few miles north of the Lizard. The beach is a clutter of boats and fishing paraphernalia.

Just up the hill is the Dartmoor Inn, and on the skyline is the rocky mass of Great Staple Tor, one of the southernmost outliers of the plateau of the north moor.

The North Sea tides could prove fatal for small craft, and more than once the Cromer lifeboat was forced out into bad weather to rescue whelkers.

This elegant Elizabethan mansion was originally built for the Secretary of the Council of the North in 1568.

In 1779 a leaden coffin was dug from under the floor in the north aisle.

Oundle, best known for its public school, lies in the north-east corner of the county. It may have expanded somewhat over the years, but it still remains a compact market town.

This beautiful 17th- century building appears to have been called New Hall in 1725, when it belonged to Thomas Chambers of Gorcott Hall (three miles north of Studley).

Rochford is a small town on the River Roach in south east Essex, a few miles to the north of Southend.

This part of south Derbyshire did not have the abundant stone for its buildings which the north of the county enjoyed, so many villages have a definitely Midlands, rather than northern, feel about them

The church building in the distance is St Mary's, whose north wall still carries scars said to be of a lesser civil war skirmish fought here.

Kelvedon Hatch is a popular commuter village in the Green Belt north-west of Brentwood. It is now well-known for its formerly 'secret' government nuclear bunker.