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Beyond the trees lies St Thomas' Church, where in 1997 a painting hanging on its walls, 'Ecce Homo', was realised to be an original work by Annebella Carracci; it was subsequently valued at £5 million

These once stood in the niches of the choir stalls and, unlike much contemporary interior decoration, survived the landmine dropped near the South Wall.

Both town and castle were put to the torch; the damage to the former was such that when reconstruction started much of the town was built outside the old walls.

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.

Some work is being carried out to the walls of the gateway, and there is a pony and trap waiting patiently beside the house on the corner.

Here are buildings of the second half of the 19th century, with an object lesson to be observed in the treatment of boundary walls and railings - all neat and carefully designed.

Here, looking towards Ingoldmells Point, are the sandy beach and the sand dunes, a view now radically changed by the more recent sea defences with a massive concave-fronted sea wall forming a promenade

On the corner by the wall is a Midland bus timetable; across the road is Blisworth Post Office, with its huge advert for Players Navy Mixture.

To the right are the walls and gate piers of the Methodist Church built in 1874. The post office next door is now clad in painted roughcast and the buildings beyond that have been demolished.

The remaining bushes have gone, and the walls have acquired a nice bright coat of paint.

The house is in Loanhead granite, and this photograph shows the eaves courses, designed to prevent rainwater washing down the wall and leeching out the mortar.

Just 2.25 miles south-west of Roche Abbey stands All Saints'. Its fine Perpendicular spire is unusual, in that the corner walling of the belfry is sloped off.

The curtain wall, shown in this photograph, is all that remains of Strickland's castle, which is now a public park.

On the south wall is Diana Warburton's monument; it is unusual in that she is depicted as a skeleton holding her winding sheet upon which is written her obituary.

A local character lounges on a wall on the left in the charming and unspoilt village of Morland, in the Eden Valley.

Besides the smart façade, one can also see the side wall, with enough evidence in the timber work to suggest that once the building was lower, and the attic floors are a later addition.

The wall and gateway were demolished for a car park in 1963. Beyond the telegraph pole is Ixworth Dairy.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

Sir Richard Scope's formidable 14th-century castle at Castle Bolton commands extensive views over his estates in lower Wensleydale, as this view from the castle walls shows.

The corner shop at the junction of Terrace Road and Forest Road displays numerous advertisements, including those for Walls Ice Cream, Cadburys, Digger, and Turf.

Burnsall lies in the heart of Wharfedale, where the drystone walls spread like a net over the fells, as can be seen in the background of this picture.

This photograph is taken inside the walls of the Iron Age hillfort of Worlebury.

The gardens rise steeply behind the cottages, the irregular plots divided by walls and unkempt shrubs.

Cow Tower was built on the River Wensum in 1378 as a boom tower, controlling the flow of river traffic at the point where the city wall ended.