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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.

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 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.

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

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.

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merit, complete with a mansard third storey, while the old Northgate Restaurant beyond, demolished in 1962, has been replaced by a three-storey office block which calls

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Most of these houses are still there, but no longer depending on the Battery Wall for protection from the sea.

The Lord's Prayer is painted on the north wall. There are some interesting effigies, including one of a former crusader.

I fownde the people in the castle in continuall mutenyes, seaking to leape the walls and run to the rebells'.

The tower`s iron steps were enclosed with iron railings until 1933, when the present dwarf wall, pillars and sward were substituted.

Walter Wells (left) sold clocks - one of which survives in the Union Street Schoolroom - and jewellery, hence the ring sign above his shop front.

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

Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

For safety reasons there is now a wall around the path to keep the people away from the traffic. There is a road crossing nearby.

The church has a 14th-century wall painting of St Blaise, and the impressive 16th-century tomb of Sir Anthony Benn; the 17th-century marble font is attributed to Sir Christopher Wren.

Eventually Micklegate commanded the highest rent of the four bars: just over 13s.The walls of the passage are built with Roman stone, including used coffins.