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Now past the North Street junction, Frith's photographer is looking north past the covered wagon with its load of barrels and sacks towards the pedimented gable of the 1868 Wesleyan church

According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.

In this view the photographer is looking north from the 'mainland' bank to the bridge, Boatslide Weir Bridge, which links Mill Meadows Island with Longholme.

The transept north tower is said to be Perpendicular survival rather than revival, but the five-bay Norman arcade was largely rebuilt after the original crossing tower collapsed in 1638, probably

Bearing in mind that this was the Great North Road , the A1, which now by-passes the town, the scene is remarkably tranquil.

Robin Hood's Bay is one of many beautiful villages which cluster around the steep-sided coves where the North York Moors reach the North Sea.

Goodmanham lies around 2 miles north-east of Market Weighton, and its history dates back to the Stone Age.

Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road.

A train belonging to the North Eastern Railway is about to ease out onto the great viaduct, built by Robert Stephenson in 1857, that carries the line 100 ft above the streets of Durham.

Today, it is still almost entirely enclosed by water - the English Channel lies to the south-east and south-west, Pagham Harbour to the north-east, and a brook, known as the Broad Rife, to the north-west

Odiham and North Warnborough have a combined population of 4,700. Approximately 45 miles west of London, North Warnborough is not far from junction 5 of the M3.

The bridge we can see here is a railway bridge built by the 'Little North Western', who constructed a line to Morecambe in 1849; their station was at Green Ayre.

This is St Mary`s parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east. The projecting north transept (right) dates from the 13th century and is two centuries older than the tower.

Here we have an early view of Towan Beach, with everyone overdressed for the seaside. A game of tennis is in progress on a court marked out in the sand.

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.

The church, built in 1827 to designs of one J Norton, is in a fairly routine design but with a circular turret and spire on the north, or Green, side.

The compact market place on the north side of the town is enhanced by its octagonal timber market cross, built in 1903 in celebration of Edward VII's coronation to replace a stone Gothic cross of 1826.

Moving north, the route climbs onto the North Downs to Headley and the Cock pub, now called the Cock Horse.

Penrith received its first market charter in 1223, and it has been a busy market town ever since, serving the north-east of the Lake District and the North Pennines.

Lowestoft, standing on Britain's most easterly point, has fought a long and not always successful battle against the ravages of the North Sea.

By 1367 Ford had been integrated into English defence planning for the North. The present castle dates mainly from the 1860s, though the north and south-west towers are original.

North of Ealing Broadway station is Haven Green, with Victorian villas on its west side and shops to its east.

Heading north-west, the route reaches Montacute. A borough since around 1100, its name derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus' or steep hill.

There are still some swift pints to be enjoyed at this pub in North Lane; Watneys were London-based brewers.