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One cottage has the remains of the 15th-century open hall. The tall house on the right has fire rings at eaves height for ladders to be tied to the wall. A

Walls and houses are built of whole flints. The tree bending towards the church reflects the wind-swept character of this isolated corner of Norfolk.

The palisade was replaced by a stone curtain wall in the early 13th century.

Situated to the right of the keep-gatehouse is the retainers' hall, a long building with a solid semi-circular bastion halfway along its length. The bastion serves several purposes.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

The four corner towers - of which only two survive to any great height - have walls nine feet thick at the base.

The massive towers and walls withstood some of the earliest cannon used in Britain, and its starving inhabitants only surrendered after a lengthy siege.

The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854 and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.The little building to the rear, which here has 'baths' written on it, is now used as a store for canoes.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

The bridge has since been replaced, but part of the brick wall to the right remains.

From within the churchyard the chequer pattern of the walls is evident, with limestone blocks alternating with small panels of flint to give a rich decorative effect.

Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

Set behind battlemented walls and surrounded by a moat fed by the resurgent waters, the palace was begun by Bishop Jocelin in the 13th century.

The rest of the building is now open to the sky and used as a walled garden.

This cavernous-like entrance opens out into a picturesque cove, containing two walled-in bathing pools for ladies and gentlemen.

The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854 and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.

A chocolate machine sits on the wall. The building today is a private dwelling, Waterloo House.

This fine study of the Granny's Teeth steps on the Cobb shows the setting of the incident in Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' where Louisa Musgrove falls off the wall.

The traffic-free minor road meanders between drystone walls through the dale south towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

This picture was taken from the Central Pier and gives us an idea of what the town's sea defences looked like prior to the widening of the Promenade and the construction of the sea wall we all know and

The names of the fallen are on plaques built into the gallery wall to the right of the obelisk, which simply states: 'Their name liveth for evermore'.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

Also, the curtain wall was too high for the scaling ladders of the day.