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We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village.

Looking north-west past the village cross, we see the church with its curiously plain tower and mean spire.

The mellow gritstone walls of the Peacock Hotel, on the A6 about four miles north of Matlock, are a landmark to visitors coming into the Peak District from the south.

On two acres of Whin Common, to the north, the poor were once permitted to collect gorse bushes as firewood. The Infant School (1840-1923) is now a recreation hall.

Just beyond is the North Eastern Railway's bridge over the Wear.

Oving Road leads west uphill from the north end of the High Street - the architectural quality does not fall off.

North Street was mainly residential in the early 20th century, with some splendid houses, including thatched cottages. They became derelict in the 1920s and were demolished in 1933.

The view is from Lockyers School looking down Blandford Road North.

Between 1964 and 1965 the north side of the chapel was hidden by a modern extension with an ugly brick gable. The new Owen Window is, however, more praiseworthy.

Taken from Coronation Park, this view looks north, away from the town centre.

Malton stands at the junction of roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

On 24 June 1497 they reached the mainland of North America.

North of Bakewell, an ancient packhorse bridge crosses the water. For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

It has polygonal buttresses and a re-set Norman north doorway with one order of colonnettes and zig-zag moulding, which had probably been moved.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

The north aisle was enlarged in 1888.

Once an important coaching town on the Great North Road, Wetherby went into decline for a number of years as long-distance stagecoach travel lost out to the railways.

A woman stands precariously on the deck of an early motor launch, but neither she nor the child is wearing a life jacket. Notice the corrugated iron boathouse on the right.

Both are large; the north one is the more select, and the south more popular – just a penny pier where dancing goes on all day in the summer.

Looking north to the church a sense of nostalgia is created by the old style 'T' junction road sign.

The Prince Albert stands further south on Horley Road, actually in South Earlsfield rather than Salfords, and north of the junction of Horley Road with Woodhatch Road.

The north winds have taken their toll and bent the lamp-posts which illuminate this slope during the evening.

Other sites include the whole of Langness (which is designated a bird sanctuary), and the Ayres conservation area in the north of the island.

About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.