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

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

Wetherby lies on the Great North Road and was once an important stopping point for coaches.

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.

at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for people from the industrial towns and cities of the north

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Until 1771, the North Gate of Oxford spanned the Cornmarket beside this tower.

Langcliffe lies 1 mile to the north of Settle on the route towards the majestic Three Peaks.

The remote north Cornish coastal parish of Morwenstow is famous for Robert Stephen Hawker, the eccentric vicar, poet and writer.

Subsequently, it would become the Alexandra Hospital, which remained in business until 1978 when the new North Devon General hospital was opened.

The village is named after the staith that defends it against the ravages of the North Sea.

In the background we can see the many hills that surround Gloucester, giving way to all routes north, south, east and west.

Bideford was a busy little quay both for traffic up and down the Taw and Tamar rivers, and for general coasting trade between the north Devon and north Cornwall ports, the Bristol Channel and South