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Note the narrow walled fields leading off from the village street, which echo medieval strip cultivation. In the background is the Lose Hill-Back Tor ridge.

The peace and tranquillity of Botley all changed in 1964 when major development took place. Today, the village is a thriving suburb of Oxford, with many shops, banks and offices.

In calm weather, the rocky sea front of the outer harbour can be used safely to secure boats before embarkation - a source of interest to people seated along the jetty wall. Mevagissey

The building of the sea wall and the Esplanade beyond gave a new opportunity for promenading.

The village Post Office on the right has a small sign attached to the wall which reads 'Post Office for money orders, savings bank, parcel post, telegraph, insurance and annuity business'.

The main gatehouse was supported by flanking half-drum towers and the curtain wall had a rectangular tower at each end, though they were of different sizes due to the geography of the site.

The forbidding walls that surround the castle can be seen in the background. Originally there were six postern towers; the one at Fishergate is now the only one that remains unaltered.

This beautiful cottage still stands, largely unaltered apart from a little pruning of the creeper on the walls and the trees to the left.

The massive bulk of the ancient abbey walls rise close the vista in the distance.

In the foreground is a crumbling wall of the medieval Outer Ward, and on the headland behind is the monstrous hotel built by the London & South Western Railway Co at the end of the 19th

In the 19th century the Bank House brewed its own beer: the wall and steps of the malt kiln and the cellar can be seen on the right.

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.

Here we have a closer view of the impressive entrance to Nonsuch Park Palace, with its stuccoed white walls and the prominent three-storey central tower incorporating angle buttresses, battlements and

In the 19th century the Bank House brewed its own beer: the wall and steps of the malt kiln and the cellar can be seen on the right.

A less widely used path is that below the castle walls on the right, which winds around from the main entrance to Mill Street.

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

As the bridge nears completion, the writing is on the wall for regular ferry services on the Severn.

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-wooded areas of

The drying nets on the harbour wall, and a rich assortment of small fishing boats and pleasure craft moored at low water, provide evidence of the demand on its facilities.

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!

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.

The walls were, and to some extent still are, covered with the signatures of visitors, though a great many have been whitewashed over. Some visitors even scratched their names on the window panes.

Note the cross-shaped ends to the tie-bars which help prevent the walls from bowing out on the house next to the telegraph pole, and on the next but one along.

Here we see the headmaster's house at Repton, which is known as the Hall. It incorporates part of the 15th-century Prior Overton's Tower.