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His last expedition found the North- West Passage around the north of Canada, but Franklin and his crews died in 1847 when his ships, 'Erebus' and 'Terror', were trapped in the Arctic ice.

There are actually two Langwiths - Nether and Upper - in north-east Derbyshire, near the border with Nottinghamshire and not far from Mansfield.

Castle Bromwich, just five miles north-east of the city, was incorporated into Birmingham in 1931.

Back into Willingdon, continue north to turn towards Jevington, through Wannock, and onto the scenic Jevington Road.

Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600. Its pleasing Georgian facades spread round the market place.

We are high on the limestone White Peak plateau with this photograph of farm buildings and cottages in the hamlet of Small Dale, north of Peak Dale, to the north east of Buxton.

Built around 1840 to carry the London and North Western railway line north through Lancashire, this splendid six-arch bridge strides across the River Wyre just below Scorton Lakes.

The abbey was built on the high ground north of the River Kennet, which in this view is behind the photographer. We are looking north-east into the cloister east walk past the refectory end wall.

North Berwick's popularity as a resort began in the 1840s, but as late as 1859, when HRH The Prince of Wales visited the town, there was a serious lack of accommodation for tourists.

Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb. During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

The Tudor tower house of North Lees Hall was one of seven halls built by Robert Eyre for his sons, all allegedly within sight of one another.

Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.

This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.

The picturesque coastal town of Eyemouth is situated five miles north of the border where the Eye Water flows into the North Sea.

Bawtry was once an important coaching stop on the old Great North Road, where horses were changed on the journey north to Scotland.

Though the North East is readily identified with coal mining, shipbuilding and iron and steel, among its lesser-known industries was the construction of railway locomotives and rolling stock.

Back into Whitehall, our tour continues north to Trafalgar Square, which was laid out in the 1820s; numerous houses in front of St Martin-in-the-Fields church were demolished.

North Street in front of us and the Market Place to the right, are now largely pedestrianised.

Nowadays the green is edged with lime trees; attractive Georgian and later cottages surround it, and the Baptist Chapel of 1823 faces its north side.

This view of the River Tove is taken from the bridge that crosses the river on the line the Romans set for Watling Street, where the road itself changes alignment from north-west to west-north-west.

From the High Street, walk down Upper Borough Walls on the site of the town's medieval north wall to turn left into Union Street.

The Highways Department has made a fine job of the flowerbeds on this roundabout at the North End of Northallerton, the busy little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors.