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The church exterior is of Bisley stone, while that used for the interior walls, most of the pulpit and the base of the font, comes from Painswick.

Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

A girl leans idly against a wall beside a creeper-covered cottage, a scene that has not greatly changed in the seventy years that have passed since the photograph was taken.

An interest- ing decorative panel on the wall between the upper windows is formed from beach pebbles.

The architect was J Wallis Chapman who used brick with stone bands and dressings topped off by an open cupola. The walls and gates and the finials have gone.

Orford had a revolutionary new design of a towered keep with curving walls, which withstood the rebellion of 1173. All the other buildings of the castle complex have been destroyed over time.

In the past many of the visitors to the area would have come in order to enjoy country pursuits, and it is interesting to see the round sign on the hotel wall for members of the Cyclists

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

The tea stall and the small Walls ice cream stall are doing a roaring trade. There are swing boats and roundabouts for the little ones.

All Saints was virtually rebuilt during the late 1840s.

The great curtain wall with its central gatehouse, flanked at either end by a massive round towers, dates from the last quarter of the 14th century.

Note the well-kept drystone walls in the lane which leads up to the farm and then onto the moors, where there is evidence of stone quarrying in the hillside in the distance.

A Preservation Society Trust plaque on the wall remarks on the rare Edward VIII 1936 monogram added later to the facade.

Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the

The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.

Below (right) we can see the remains of the ancient wall defences of the castle.

An inscription on the west face of Carew's Celtic cross commemorates Maredudd ap Edwin, joint ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south west Wales, who died two years into his reign

A Friends` Meeting House was erected there in 1804: the tree-shaded wall on the left surrounds its graveyard.

The nave west wall is also Anglo-Saxon.

A Victorian post box sits in the wall on the right, out of view. The cottages, little changed, carry the names of former occupants: Crockford, Chidgey, Pope, Syms and Miss Bryant.

Children play on the beach below the sea wall.

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

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.

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.