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It was from here, on 24 September 1645, that King Charles watched the Battle of Rowton Heath, which took place just outside the city walls.

The post office stands on the right, with a stamp machine on the wall outside. The massive keep of the castle that gives the village its name attracts many visitors.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

Above the village are the remains of the mammoth mine of Drake Walls.

Another view of the centre of the village, showing the Old Hall Hotel on the right and the raised, walled churchyard on the left.

Hundreds of feet of drift nets are being inspected and mended where necessary on the wall, and there is a pile of cork floats behind the men on the quay edge.

Sidmouth's sea wall was built in 1835, and has been strengthened subsequently.

The big tree in St Mary's churchyard has gone, and the wall has been rebuilt further back from the pavement.

On this road leading to the sea front, the cottage on the left has flint walls and a thatched roof. The front garden is decorated with staddle stones.

The low wall on the extreme left had been a pound - an overnight stopping-point for animals being driven to Chelmsford's livestock market.

In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

Everything seems twisted or warped - the granite setts, alleys and courtyards, blue slate-hung walls, whitewashed rubble, tumbling roofs. Old fishermen sit in the sunlight outside Quick's sail loft.

High walls enclose the water channel, for although the village lies some seven miles from the coast, it is barely above sea-level: the houses lining the river bank have been flooded many times over

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

The last incumbent, Thomas King, served for 41 years, a duty commemorated by a plaque on the garden wall.

The story has probably arisen because the inn sits over the former ditch that would have surrounded the town walls immediately behind it.

High on the wall in the centre is the sign for the Redcar Literary Institute – the annual subscription was 10s. Clothing styles have changed - no anoraks and trainers here!

The tall chimney next door rises above a bread oven, whose rounded shape protrudes from the wall of the house.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

ft with walls nine feet thick, was designed and built by Ranulph of Durham, and is one of the earliest examples of a gatehouse fulfilling the role of a keep.

The crypt, as it is called, is a vaulted apartment located in the northern part of the west front. It is 45?ft long by 22?ft wide, and its outer wall is 7?ft 6in thick.

The trees and low wall in the distance belong to the grounds of Sackville College, a wonderful quadrangle in mellow local sandstone, founded in 1617 as almshouses.

The castle was founded in c1200, and the initial design is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square keep and a curtain wall.

T Walls, whose sign advertises the livery stables, was closely associated with the Misses Bull, who ran a restaurant in the Bull Hotel.