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Thus the mansions, built earlier, were not ruined and much of the town remains old-fashioned, untouched by modern development.

Brixham enjoyed a prosperity rarely seen during the hard times of Victorian England.

Dawlish began as two discrete hamlets, one inland by the parish church and another on the seashore, but quickly grew as the first visitors arrived to holiday in the late 18th century.

Hope Cove was a simple fishing village cut off from the world until it was 'discovered' in the 20th century.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Hope Cove remains one of the few safe anchorages between the Yealm estuary and Salcombe, several miles to the east.

In its churchyard is the grave of the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold, with an epitaph which reads 'Awake, thou Lute and Harp - I will awake right early'.

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

This busy prospect reveals the pleasing mix of architectural styles inevitable in any prosperous city. On the right is the old post office and the agricultural hall.

Constantine's fine terraces are built with granite dug from one of the many quarries nearby, which also furnished the stone for Waterloo Bridge.

The population in 1801 was 431, but this had dropped to 411 by the time of the 1811 census.

Apparently there was once a plan to develop Ravenscar into a resort that would rival Scarborough, but the scheme failed owing to the unstable geology of the area.

Over one hundred years' later, Guildown still closes this view, with the famous clock of 1683 jutting out from the Elizabethan Guildhall. The clock was made by London clockmaker John Aylward.

Camberley grew up at the gates of the Military Staff College which opened in 1862.

The long esplanade is one of Penzance's great assets; here we look towards the harbour area, with the lofty church tower as a prominent landmark.

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt. The Congregational Chapel in the background was built in 1831.

The elevation of the house has been altered to include a balcony and an extension on the left side.

Though the present building is mostly 17th-century, a mill has existed on this site since Domesday.

The landlord of the Ship Inn situated in the old hamlet was John Andrews, who was notorious for his smuggling.

The little beach huts and tearooms look cosy enough sheltering under the cliff, but as the name implies it would be a different matter on the cliff top.

Beside Beach Villa with the Metropole just behind, the new cliff lift was in process of being constructed; it was eventually to make access to and from the beach much simpler.

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.

This is one of the more unusual piers: its 642ft-long neck does not go straight out to sea, but veers rightward. It was built in 1895-97, and was used widely by steamers.

The Chain Pier lasted from 1823 to 1896, falling victim to storms, neglect and a loss of business to the West Pier.