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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.

The cliffs and castle are sublime, with plunging chasms and precipices, and rough fragments of wall, bastion and gateway bound by china clay mortar.

It was once a walled settlement with a castle. This agreeable street has many fine old shopfronts, some multi-paned and dating from the late Georgian period.

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

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

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

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

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.

Within, a curious niche in the west wall may be the entry to an anchorite's cell of c1400.

furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall

The adjoining walls and buildings were subsequently destroyed so that traffic bypassed the gate.

Cannons and a statue can be seen near the Castle walls along the North Terrace. The cannons are still there but the statue has gone.

The figures on the wall are no longer there. Today, the Cockpit is a very popular restaurant.

The eastern buttresses are unusual in that they are extensions of the nave west wall. Below the nave roof is a row of blocked quatrefoil windows, although the aisles were never built.

Burgh was also close to the western end of Hadrian's Wall, and the parish church of St Michael is built within a Roman fort.

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

To the left is the grey lias wall of Admiral Blake's home, Puriton Manor. The original house does not survive, but the great arched gateway does.

Notice the semi-circular oven protruding from the wall beside the chimney, a feature of many period cottages in the area. It was used to bake bread, then very much a staple of the diet.

Their solution was to use side walls which could be folded away, thus allowing for semi-outdoor services.

These tall commercial buildings are still there today, marred somewhat by new frontages. Exeter was the furthest west that the Romans ventured.

The timbered building on the left, occupied at the time by Barclays Bank, was originally built with plastered upper walls and gables, later exposed to give the building a mock Tudor flavour.

The old station it replaced lay just within the city walls; its site and layout were such that trains had either to back in or out of it.

The 1920s motorist appears well catered for, with both garaging and petrol to hand.

Belsay was built in the early 14th century, though it is not known if it was protected by a curtain wall or if there were any other buildings. The attached manor house was erected in 1614.