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Their five hideous faces gaze down from the vaulted ceiling of the magnificent church porch.

In 1913, the castle was overrun with actors rather than sheep as Marten`s Tower and the Main Gatehouse looked down on the making of the film Ivanhoe.

Duncton sits at the foot of the Downs, with fine views nearby. Holy Trinity Church was built in 1866 in the Decorated style, on the site of a medieval church.

It was originally a water mill, and was owned by Rankins the Millers when it burned down in April 1965.

Workmen are shovelling china clay down chutes into the hold.

The lane leads down to Fore Street.

Sloping gently down to the River Windrush, Burford's High Street is lined with a wonderful variety of old buildings.

The weather-boarded building on the right is Barham's gunsmiths, closed down after legislation destroyed its viability.

There was once a railway running down the middle of this street and around the corner at the end. It went to Westward Ho! and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.

A little further down, however, it surges over a weir where a watermill used to stand.

Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.

From Castle Hill we look down on the Esplanade, with the Beach Hotel in the middle distance.

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Its claim to fame is the Barn Stone - a huge granite boulder swept down from Scotland during the last Ice Age.

Looking down Gloucester Street, this view shows St Peter's in the distance. This 15th-century church is noted for its grotesque gargoyles. The interior was substantially renovated in 1872.

Havant is a busy little town overlooking Langstone Harbour; its church recalls the time of Roman and Norman invaders.

Down the hill to the left lie the delights of the Logan Rock Inn, while turning right after the telephone box leads to a beautiful campsite high above Porthcurno beach.

The original family home burnt down in a fierce blaze on Christmas Day 1845.

We now start to go down the Frimley Road, and this is the junction with Edward Avenue.

When it had become unsafe in 1904, the stone lion on the roof of the Lion Hotel was brought down to stand on the pavement.

Today the mill has been turned into an inn, and the fields below the steep road have been laid out as a car park for visitors to Polperro village that lies down to the right.

That figure is now down to 20% as a result of the introduction of many new national and international routes by other airlines.

The photographer is standing on Monks Hill, looking down the winding road that leads to the centre of the original village.

The 17th-century box pews were irreparably damaged in the 'restoration' of the 1860s by Norman Shaw, when they were cut down.