BBC2 is repeating Jonathan Meades' series Magnetic North in 4 parts:

The North is as much an ideal as the South. It's the un-promised land of darkness and the Gothic in all its forms: a thrilling grimness, exhilarating harshness - inky canals, glistening cobbles, of buildings that respond to flatlands and vast skies with spires, fantastical roof lines, wild gables, pointed arches ... and slag heaps which man made to compensate for the lack of mountains.

Both episodes are available as Youtube playlists - one and two.