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No longer shops, they have been decked out with modern leaded casements and bow windows.

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

This small and delightful riverside town has a bustling quayside with a mix of pleasure boats and commerce in the shape of boat builders and repairers.

This was constructed as the northern frontier between Scotland and Britain and remained so for some two hundred years.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

The rocky knoll of Biskey Howe, rising abruptly above the built-up area of Bowness, has long been a favourite viewpoint—from here a large proportion of the lake is visible.

This was constructed as the northern frontier between Scotland and Britain and remained so for some two hundred years.

We are looking up from the Dundas Street junction.

We are looking up from the Dundas Street junction.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

This panoramic view looks across the rapidly-drying mud flat called the Salty in the foreground, and shows the point jutting into the River Teign and the pier at the Den.

When it had become unsafe in 1904, the stone lion on the roof of the Lion Hotel was brought down to stand on the pavement.

Until the 1990s, this was one of the few places where the lifeboat was kept on the open beach.

This sumptuous red-brick Hall, set in exquisite parkland, was built by Sir William Paston in the early 1600s, and its facade is a grand example of Jacobean work.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

The rocky knoll of Biskey Howe, rising abruptly above the built-up area of Bowness, has long been a favourite viewpoint – from here a large proportion of the lake is visible.

Behind the chestnut tree in the village square, once known as Waterloo Square, the shops were originally a small row of cottages, which were apparently used as a quartermaster's stores and to billet soldiers

The street was named after Daniel Milsom, a wine cooper who owned the land.

It is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to ‘embattle’

As we look west from the pier, we can see how patchy and sporadic the growth of Worthing was.

Along the ridge, Somerset Place and Lansdown Crescent curve sinuously to great architectural effect, with grand views across the city.

At the left was Jackson's the butcher's, now an electrical shop.