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The Royal Beacon Hotel was built c1810 at the end of the fashionable Beacon Terrace.

Beacon Hill, in the distance, was in the chain of warning beacons established when French and later Spanish invasions were feared in the 16th century.

Beacon Cottage, to the left, takes its name from the beacon that preceded the lighthouse of 1890.

Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

Now in the care of the National Trust, Ditchling Beacon was one of a chain of fires lit to warn of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

In his 'A Shropshire Lad', the poet A E Housman opens with the words: 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain . . .'

Sited on a Bronze Age tumulus, the Beacon was built in Elizabethan times and was used at the time of the Armada to warn of the Spanish threat.

Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.

Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.

The Beacon, just south of the Atlantic Hotel (in the background) was once a Coastguard lookout.

below the Royal Standard; we look eastwards from deck-chairs, boats and canvas shelters to the North Wall of the harbour and the coast from Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill to Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon

The four Belisha beacons have been replaced by their pelican equivalent.

Built in 1719 on the site of earlier fire- signal stations, the Beacon stands almost 1,000ft above sea-level, commanding views of the Lakeland, Pennine and Shap Fells and Scottish mountains

Most buildings are of the limestone that has for many years been quarried from nearby Painswick Beacon, so the town sits comfortably on the ground from which it comes.

Old Winchester Hill and Beacon Hill nearby are local beauty spots, and provide magnificent views over much of Hampshire.

The beacon symbol on the school sign on the left is a nostalgic reminder of the past.

The water conduit is of the same date, and is surmounted by a beacon.

Beyond rises the side of Selworthy Beacon, forested in the early 19th century by Sir Thomas Acland, owner of the estate.

As Exmouth developed, residential streets such as the mostly Georgian Beacon Terrace were built on higher ground overlooking the sea.

Glyn Neath marks the head of the Vale of Neath, and from here one can head off into the spectacular Brecon Beacons National Park and other popular locations.

Just behind the roof is wooded Beacon Hill.

Just visible at the top is a beacon surrounded by Greek pillars and crowned by a copper model of the 'Mayflower' in the form of a weath- ervane.

Firle, tucked beneath the South Downs and the 718ft-high Firle Beacon, has been the Gage family home for 500 years.

Built in 1898 at a cost of £20,000, the Beacon Hotel boasted its own stables and livery school, and was an extremely popular establishment during the first three decades of the 20th century.