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The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

The Ten Commandments on the chancel wall were repainted in 1907 by William Peskett, a plumber, painter and glazier who lived in Bury Cottage.

The walls were 15ft thick, and like the gatehouses they were flanked by six towers. Beaumaris was, in fact, never completed.

It is not known if Belsay ever had a curtain wall, or if there were other buildings associated with it. The manor house extension was added in 1614.

The town of Runcorn is behind the bridge; the retaining wall of the Manchester Ship Canal can be seen along the edge of the River Mersey.

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

The original approach was along a wooden bridge at right angles to the castle walls, thus exposing an attacker's unshielded flank to fire from the defenders.

The ferry was quickly restored and continued in service until 1951, when a flood defence wall was built.

Churchtown can trace its recorded history back to the Viking landings, but it is also true that the settlement will have been in existence before the outcasts from Ireland made their way ashore.

The Greenwich Meridian sign on the wall between Nos 105 and 107 is well worth finding - it was placed there in 1948.

Three miles south-east of Southport, Scarisbrick Hall was remodelled by John Foster in 1814 and by Augustus Welby Pugin between 1836 and 1845.

The walls on the right belong to the grounds of Culham House, a large Georgian house, and the inn sign is for the Lion, out of view to the left.

The base of a cross known as the Kingstone survived into the 20th century, but was removed and used as walling in Black Horse Lane.

two-storey office block of dubious merit, complete with a mansard third storey, while the old Northgate Restaurant beyond, demolished in 1962, has been replaced by a three-storey office block which calls

However, none of the buildings survive, although the dock walls and the entrance abutments in the distance remain.

The rebels swept on to burn more towns before their defeat, and Colchester was rebuilt and walled in stone.

Tenby is probably the most recognisable seaside town in Wales.

In architectural terms it has much to offer within its basically 13th-century fabric: a 17th-century bread cupboard, hatchments, wall paintings and monuments, including one to Jane Clitherow who died in

The wall, with a flint and shell archway with Doric columns, allows the waters to emerge from the grounds of Bourne Hall into the pond, before they flow on to the Hogsmill River.

Following the threat from Spain in 1588, the Italian fortifications engineer Federigo Gianibelli was commissioned to improve Carisbrooke's defences; his curtain walls and bastions are still in very good

One wonders what Henry Stevens, the landlord in 1907, would have thought of the modern Barley Mow - and we might ask why he decided to sport a White Ensign endorsed `The People` on the front wall of

The North Wall of the harbour (left centre) was still detached from the beach.

On its wall is a sign indicating the Pentice. The first shop on the left is now a Debenhams store selling clothes and beds - the blinds have been removed. Next door is Natwest.

The thatched roof and plastered walls of the Chantry House typify the construction of the houses and cottages in Ashwell. Even the barn (left, behind the delivery van) is thatched.