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This view, looking north along what is now the main A34 towards Alderley Edge village, shows where Welsh Row crossed the old turnpike, connecting the old enclosed fields on the plain with the open

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South

This view is taken looking along Station Approach north from beside the station; at this date, the shops and houses are almost unchanged since they were built in the 1890s.

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.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

On 18 July 1844 the London and North Western Railway Company began work to extend the railway from Lancaster to Carlisle.

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

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.

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

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

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

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

The closest parked cars on each side are Humbers, with a Riley 9 further along the north side of the street (centre).

This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.

Tantallon Castle perches on top of cliffs overlooking the Firth of Forth.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east.

At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.

Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion

The short granite cross base with a carved interlace design has inscribed on the other side 'Doniert rogavit pro anima', which translates as 'Doniert ordered this for the good of his soul'.

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill