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The village's favourable microclimate encourages the profusion of climbing plants up the walls of the houses, which have the steep pitched stone roofs typical of Cotswold villages.

Two farm carts make their way down the drive, which is lined on one side with fir trees and on the other with the battlemented brick wall which is generally believed to form part of the original garden

Here we have a busy scene, with most of those enjoying the beach placing their deckchairs close to the sea wall. This is a sandy beach, ideal for making sand castles.

The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls through the dale, towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

A temporary wall separates it from the crossing tower and the dust from the building works beyond the west tower arch.

Two of the village's attractions are the parish church, which is the only one in the country dedicated to St Benedict Biscop, and the cricket ground, which is one of the few walled-in grounds to survive

A temporary wall separates it from the crossing tower and the dust from the building works beyond the west tower arch.

The rustic walkway pre- sented visitors with ample opportunities to sit and admire the view, and its width is a reminder, if one was needed, of the thickness of the castle's walls.

The north aisle wall was moved when the aisle was widened in 1846, but the Norman arcades remain; they have three bays, with unmoulded arches of simple imposts with slight chamfering.

The wall on the left of the picture marks the entrance to the Rothwell House Hotel.

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints' Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.

This is not a beautiful scene, but some effort has been put into designing the brick boundary wall, flagpoles and railings.

Totnes became fully walled in 1215.

Terraces of solid Victorian houses overlook the cliffs, with brick walls and wrought iron railings protecting the gardens.

The Edwardian terraces in the foreground, with their bay windows and neat, walled gardens and railings, harmonise with the simpler cottages beyond.

Traitor's Gate can be seen in the river wall to the left. Above it is the spire of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, which had just been restored following Second World War bombing.

This view shows the street furniture of the time; on the right is a gas lamp and on the left sturdy 'spur stones' that were placed at street corners to stop wagon wheels from scraping the walls.

Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

The construction of Penrice took place over about fifty years, beginning in c1250 with a stone round keep, followed by curtain wall, gatehouse, two round towers and five small turrets.

On the wall of the barracks in the background are two targets, presumably for rifle practice. Surely they are a little too close to the windows!

On Queen Street are the scant remains of the medieval manor house that once belonged to Tynemouth Priory: a fragment of wall and a 15th-century window.

Warwickshire`s vernacular architecture characteristically uses a mixture of building materials; with stone in the Cotswolds, for instance, and an abundance of timber in the formerly well