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Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort, and this was reflected in the construction of several early and very prominent hotels.

The land to the right is now a housing estate, while a speed camera lurks around the bend!

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

In his 'A Shropshire Lad', the poet A E Housman opens with the words: 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain . . .'

The single-storey white building was the Coastguard Station, built between 1884 and 1904. Beacon Cottage, to the left, takes its name from the beacon that preceded the lighthouse of 1890.

Now in the care of the National Trust, Ditchling Beacon was one of a chain of fires lit to warn of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Much earlier than that it was a hill fort.

Sited on a Bronze Age tumulus, the Beacon was built in Elizabethan times and was used at the time of the Armada to warn of the Spanish threat.

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.

The Beacon, just south of the Atlantic Hotel (in the background) was once a Coastguard lookout. Its place is now occupied by the town war memorial, which incorporates the lookout in its structure.

The 1930s Shoe Inn can be seen between the post office and the thatched cottage.

Pebbles and sand extend below the Royal Standard; we look eastwards from deck-chairs, boats and canvas shelters to the North Wall of the harbour and the coast from Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill to Golden

Built in 1719 on the site of earlier fire- signal stations, the Beacon stands almost 1,000ft above sea-level, commanding views of the Lakeland, Pennine and Shap Fells and Scottish mountains

Adjoining the Hollow, the main A47 becomes Wood Street. Today the scene is a lot more commercial. The four Belisha beacons have been replaced by their pelican equivalent.

A superb view of both the railway in the foreground, complete with steam engine, and the rolling hills beyond.

Most buildings are of the limestone that has for many years been quarried from nearby Painswick Beacon, so the town sits comfortably on the ground from which it comes.

Fortunately, there is no traffic as the farmer herds his small herd of cows in the middle of the road at the bottom of Town Hill beside the Peterville Inn.

Fortunately, there is no traffic as the farmer herds his small herd of cows in the middle of the road at the bottom of Town Hill beside the Peterville Inn.

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

Built in 1898 at a cost of £20,000, the Beacon Hotel boasted its own stables and livery school, and was an extremely popular establishment during the first three decades of the 20th century.

This view of Allerford's much photographed 15th-century packhorse bridge and ford looks much the same today. The guesthouse to the right now has a public bar.

The white building in the centre of the photograph is the Royal Beacon Hotel, and the hotel on the left, level with the flower beds, is the Channel View.

In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed

There are two Benthams, High and Lower, and this view looks down Mount Pleasant from the village cross in High Bentham.