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Could it be that the lack of change in this view brings with it all that we desire in village life? Even the sluice along the wall to the pond is still the same.

In the distance is East Budleigh's charming old thatched vicarage with its delightful walled garden. Known today as Vicar's Mead, this is where Sir Walter Raleigh went to school.

The one to the left of the pointed gable is called Dick Turpin`s Cottage, though it does not have any documented link with the famous thug.

Swords and armour bedeck the walls.

This is the interior of the 1881 addition to St Charles Borromeo church; the pictures on the walls show the stations of the cross.

The machines, which were stored in a walled enclosure, were taken out and wheeled down to the water's edge when they were needed. There are no swimmers in the water, only a few rowing boats.

A short distance away behind the church, to the right, we can see the ornate window and gable end of the Methodist church (now the village hall).

Beyond are the walls to the grounds of The Dicker, but many of the trees are now gone.

Beyond the low stone wall along the left side of the road the land drops to the bank of the River Avon.

The buildings on the hill are the upper part of Brimscombe village, with Walls Quarry and Burleigh to the right.

We can see thatched cob walls on both the left and the right; Over Wallop is the place to go in Hampshire to see this regional speciality.

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

Its roof probably dates from the late 18th century, but the steeper pitch of an earlier medieval roof can be seen in the tower wall behind it.

The hairpin railings were replaced after World War II by concrete block walls, but fortunately lower versions of the railings have recently replaced the ungainly blockwork.

The Bell and Crown inn is now called the Cloisters; Gibbs Mew was the main Salisbury brewery, now sadly no longer with us.

This is an archive photograph all right: few of these buildings remain, partly as a result of the tragic floods of 1953 when the sea burst through the sea walls.

built in the 13th century, and it is situated next to some of the earliest stone structures in the castle: the Old Tower on the right was built in the 12th century, and a fighting gallery and curtain wall

Here we see a paddle steamer moored at the harbour wall.

The earliest castle ruins date from the 12th century, and include the keep and curtain wall of the inner ward. The bulk of the ruins, however, are from the 14th century and Tudor periods.

The picturesque village is situated on a minor east-west road, rising up from the reservoir past Sir James Pennethorne's hall, which took some twenty years to complete, the medieval parish church and

Now a house, it retainst the Victorian wall letterbox near the door, cleared four times a day in around 1900.

The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.

For many years, the two sides of the cenotaph were let into the walls of the church entrance porch, as we see here.

The castle here had fallen into decay by Shakespeare's time: in 'Richard II', he mentions its “empty lodgings and unfurnished walls, unpeopled offices, untrodden stones”.