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At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Note the dry stone wall in the foreground.

The area in the right foreground below the Priory was once known as 'The Werkes' where stone from the Isles of Purbeck, and Wight, was taken for the castle and Priory.

The village of Avebury, population 650, is best known for its impressive prehistoric stone circles, which were recently claimed to be the work of marmalade millionaire Keiller, rather than prehistoric

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

St James (right) was dedicated by Bishop Stapledon in 1318, and an altar slab stone found recently is thought to be the very stone involved in that dedication.

Of Portland stone, and 145 feet high, it was erected in 1843.The figure of Nelson was carved from three massive stones, the largest of which weighed thirty tons.

It is said that the town took its name from Lady Roysia's Stone, and that the stone itself was the base for the Market Cross.

This monument is an epic feat of prehistoric technology, bearing in mind the way the stones are put together and that the stones were brought from miles away.

Beer stone has been quarried for centuries and used in important buildings across England.

The Bowder Stone, a 2,000-ton boulder which was transported to near Grange in Borrowdale by Ice Age glaciers, has been a source of tourist wonder for centuries.Today the stone is surrounded by trees

Claughton Hall, a Tudor mansion near the church, was moved stone by stone higher up into the hills.

It has many old Ham stone cottages, some thatched, and some with stone mullioned windows.

St Anne's Church tower is visible behind the handsome Stepping Stones House.

Its stone succes- sor was built in 1272 by Sir Grimbauld Pauncefote.

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

A fine stone village a mile from Frome, Beckington has some superb stone houses and a church with an excellent Norman tower.

Steep Hill retains its stone flag footway and central roadway laid with stone setts.

Of Portland stone, and 145 feet high, it was erected in 1843.The figure of Nelson was carved from three massive stones, the largest of which weighed thirty tons.

Newton Poppleford takes its name from the round stones, or popples (like the pobbles of Budleigh Salterton), that abound in the area; it was a fording place over the Otter for centuries

This reddish stone is soft compared with most local stones and can be most easily cut.

St Anne's Church tower is visible behind the handsome Stepping Stones House.

It is perhaps best known for its two prehistoric monuments: King Arthur's Round Table, a Bronze Age henge, and the former Neolithic stone circle and henge at Mayburgh, of which only one standing stone