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Boroughbridge probably saw its best days when it was a coaching town for traffic on the Great North Road, and had no less than twenty-two inns.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

North-east of the church is the Hop Pole Hotel, a good 18th-century coaching inn that also catered for visitors to the great Dukeries mansions.

Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.

This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

Tin Ghaut was just off Grape Lane, once home to Whitby explorer Captain James Cook, who is remembered in monuments and museums all around the north-east coast. This charming view no longer exists.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

Before local government was established, Shefford was fortunate in the action of a 16th-century resident called Robert Lucas, who left his property for the benefit of the citizens of Shefford.

It is an attractive open area, and this view looks north past the pond across Bushey Road, with the row of elms on the right.

Bracing is a good word to describe the north and east winds that frequently blow into the coast here, but the sand beaches are superb compensation.

This view looks to the north end of Silver Street and its junction with the High Street, the main Sleaford to Skegness Road.

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left).

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

At the bottom end of the High Street is The Vale, a park formally opened in 1937 in fields between the now vanished London and North Western Railway station (demolished in 1960) and the gas works, also

Pevsner in The Buildings of England says of Caldy: 'Cheshire is something of a Surrey of the North, but Surrey has nothing to compare with this'.

We are looking north along Wallasey Village, with the bollards at the top of Leasowe Road visible on the left. The cobbled street to the immediate left, just beyond the chemists, is Lycette Road.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

The Georgian-style council offices, now North Herts District Council's housing department, were built for the Urban District Council in 1935 to a design by Bennet & Bidwell, architects of many of the buildings

Adjacent, to the north, is the old palace which belonged to the Bishop of London. Some of the windows in the church were designed by Henry Moore, who lived in the nearby hamlet of Perry Green.

This compact village is situated on the main coast road north of Aberystwyth; it grew up to serve the workers of the nearby lead mines and woollen mills.

An evocative view from the north-east of the part of the town immediately below the Castle and the impressive Castle and prison itself.

Designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, the Forth Bridge cost £3,000,000 to build. Of the workforce of 4,500 men, 57 were killed in work-related accidents.

Two carefully-posed groups of young girls are a feature of this photograph of the village of North Nibley, with the 111 foot- high memorial tower to the martyr William Tyndale on the knoll