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The Green Dragon Hotel, a stone-built 18th-century inn, is popular with residents and students from Lancaster University.

So too were aspects of the 'alternative society', who used Stonehenge for all sorts of spiritual enlightenment or protest, as can be seen by the CND sign daubed on the stone in the centre.

Further east, at the junction with Ironmonger Street, the quality of the Georgian stone or stucco façades on the right is evident, while on the left or south side there is more variety.

The Tor has two granite outcrops which nature has weathered to form stacks of impressive bun-like stones; otherwise the moor is bleak and treeless.

Much of the stone from the abbey tower was used to build the local church a century later.

Looking at this photograph of the Druids` Stones, with the horizontal stone on top, one can understand why an early 19th-century antiquarian wanted to claim it as an Ancient British cromlech

The projecting gatehouse was added about 1100, and the work of replacing the timber palisading with stone occurred sometime during the second half of the 13th century.

We can see the stone mullion windows and low doorways of this former almshouse, which was built under the will of Robert Napier in 1616.

The big painted stone house in the left distance, No 15, is mainly 17th- and 18th-century, and has some stone mullioned windows.

There are three upright stones, covered by a cap stone about 13ft long.

The old stone bridge was removed in stages and replaced by the existing bridge, which was officially opened on 2 May 1966.

Moulton is a village of narrow winding lanes, lined by stone-built cottages and houses, nowadays with traffic calming and one-way systems.

Scone is, of course, associated with the Stone of Destiny.

The original Eleanor Cross, one of twelve erected by Edward I along the route taken by his wife's funeral cortege, was built in 1291 from Caen stone and Sussex and Purbeck marble and inset with precious

How did Stone get its name?

The village expanded with the boot and shoe works in the later 19th century, but the original stone village survives.

How did Stone get its name?

On the north side of St Paul's Square is the old corn exchange, an uncompromising Victorian building whose foundation stone was laid in October 1872.

Above this there is a cross- shaped ashlar building in Ancaster stone.

In the south, huge pits were dug for china clay, an industry that continues today, and all over the moor granite was quarried for building stone.

The Globe at Swanage was carved out of a great mass of Portland Stone, ten feet in diameter and forty tons in weight.The Globe is positioned to represent the position of the earth in space, with nearby

Amid the stone and render, the pedimented corner building on the left is in brick, and was erected in 1885.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

The village is largely stone built and was surrounded by stone-pits and small quarries at one time.