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The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.
This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.
There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.
This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.
Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.
Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls.
This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.
The Clayton Windmills were built in the 19th century.
A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall.
Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.
It was dismantled in 1959 and the parts were taken to County Oak, near Gatwick Airport, but have not been reassembled.
The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.
This view looks east along the main street.
Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.
The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.
These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.
The Village Green c1955.
Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.
Cow Tower was built on the River Wensum in 1378 as a boom tower, controlling the flow of river traffic at the point where the city wall ended.
The houses of Bramber are varied and picturesque.
