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The journey took over thirty hours, and was an acceptable alternative to being shaken and bounced along the Great North Road in a mail-coach.

The white deposits on the granite boulders in the river bed are china clay, vast deposits of which have been worked on Lee Moor to the north since the 1840s.

This was once an important stopping place on the main road from Taunton to the north Devon area; now, a new road further south has removed much of the traffic from this place.

The weatherboarded Plough Inn in the background, which occupies part of the north side of the green, is in part of 14th-or 15th-century construction, but mainly 18th-century.

The YMCA outdoor activities centre on the western shore of Windermere a little distance north of Lakeside occupies 240 acres, with a lake frontage of half a mile.

Kingsgate Castle was built in about 1860 close to the sea cliff's edge and the North Foreland itself. It is shown here romantically clothed in ivy.

Leaving the town by North Street the traveller was soon in the country, passing Marshall's Park on the right.

Pure water produced by artesian wells from the chalk aquifer, inspired the Silva Springs re-branding of the crop that came to fame for Victorian high tea in the Midlands and the North.

Such was the concern in 1791, that two beacons were erected, illuminated by lanterns holding many candles; one became the lighthouse, and another stood about 400 yards north of Cart Gap.

It stands on the north side of what is now the main A591, opposite the railway station.

Beyond the promenade, the bay sweeps around past Dunster to Minehead, which lies below the high promontory of North Hill.

Two young ladies return from a paddle as a drifter dries its sail before returning to sea in the continued search for the vast shoals of herring that used to migrate southwards in the North Sea.

The Rollright Stones, situated 3 miles north-west of Chipping Norton, are estimated to be over 3,000 years old.

Carfax stands at the crossing point where the original north to south and east to west routes ran through Oxford.

North Street leads out of the town in the direction of Cowdray Park, with which the town is most closely associated.

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with

This view of the Upper Harbour in the ancient port of Whitby situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea has hardly changed since the 1950s.

A walk up Gay Street, named after Robert Gay, who granted John Wood the lease on this hilly area north-west of the old city, leads to one of the most celebrated pieces of this remarkable city's townscape

This view looks from the north bank of the Avon, near the toll bridge. The mill buildings are still in use (compare this view with the last one).

The drains run north-east, roughly parallel for approximately twenty miles.

Arkengarthdale is a little-visited but very beautiful dale which runs into Swaledale from the north-west at Reeth.

The view is looking towards the former London & North Western Railway station on the line to Stockport and Manchester. Note also the roadside petrol pumps, now collectors' items in their own right.

Seen from the north end of the lock island are the boat rollers, now disused, then the narrow skiff lock, nicknamed 'The Coffin', and then a further two locks, both now rebuilt.

This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.