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Some of the walls are eight metres thick, and the chalk cliff below is honeycombed with passages excavated by invading French troops in the 13th century.

East Cliff, Church Street, the Yards

The cliffs and castle are sublime, with plunging chasms and precipices, and rough fragments of wall, bastion and gateway bound by china clay mortar.

This panoramic view of Henrietta Street and East Cliff was probably taken from the West Pier extension.

This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.

Old deeds of many of the East Cliff houses often included particulars of 'drying grounds', the rights of which came with the building in question.

The closest buildings are Cobb Cliff and Wings (centre right) - Wings stood from 1827 to 1945.

Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

The ancient folded rock cliffs are a superb breeding site for seabirds.

This view shows Eype Mouth, looking westwards to what is now a National Trust skyline, with Ridge Cliff and Doghouse Hill rising into the 508-feet summit of Thorncombe Beacon (centre).

Even the visit of Cliff Richard and his original backing group, the Drifters, in the 1960s could not save the Astoria, and it became one of the first victims of the surge towards bingo.

High on the 600ft cliff and looking towards Robin Hood's Bay is the Raven Hall Hotel, once the site of a Roman signal station.

This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

ONE of the great joys of Exmouth is its beautiful setting, caught magnificently between the sea, the long Exe estuary and the wilder countryside of heath and cliff that so defines east Devon, offering

He descended and came to a small basin of sea enclosed by the cliffs [Lulworth Cove]. Troy's nature freshened within him; he thought he would rest and bathe here before going further.

From the area of Miller Ground, sunsets have always been a much-admired Windermere feature, with shafts of silver/ copper light escaping from heavy clouds and crossing the water from Claiffe Heights

From the area of Miller Ground, sunsets have always been a much-admired Windermere feature, with shafts of silver or copper light escaping from heavy clouds and crossing the water from Claiffe Heights

The steam ferry boat of 1870 makes its presence felt as the smoke drifts across the woodland of Claiffe Heights; it has apparently just left the slipway beside the Ferry Hotel.

Here, the old core of the village, clustered around St Martin's parish church, backed by Belle Isle and Claiffe Heights, is being admired by three elegantly dressed ladies.

The heavily wooded Belle Isle and Claiffe Heights bear witness to the zeal of Thomas Curwen in planting huge numbers of larch and other trees following his purchase of the land a century earlier.

In the view is Colthouse hamlet, tucked into the foot of the western side of Claiffe Heights; to the right we can see part of the roof of the Grammar School attended by Wordsworth, and also the end of

Bowness Bay opens out into the north basin of the lake; Hen Holme island is backed by wooded Claiffe Heights and the mountains around Langdale.