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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!

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.

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

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.

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 . . .'

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 The four Belisha beacons have been replaced by their pelican equivalent.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

As Exmouth developed, residential streets such as the mostly Georgian Beacon Terrace were built on higher ground overlooking the sea.

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

The Palladium Bar was opened when the site was first developed for leisure. The zig-zag roof now covers a swimming pool, and the displaced bar is in a new part of the extended building.

The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.

This is a splendid picture of the magnificent Georgian facade of Firle Place, which disguises the original Tudor structure.

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.